Real Orienteering (Norfolk Hero) 52:12 [4] 7.5 km (6:58 / km) +255m 5:57 / km
shoes: Innov-8
Distance a guess.
Its amusing how this sort of event develops into a Nigel-Neil match race. Nigel took off and was leading by a minute after the first loop. I faced the longer variant for the second loop. Our paths intersected on the way to the 8th in the second loop. We hadn't seen each other since the start. We shouldn't have met as we were both in the wrong place. Took a while to accept that. Meanwhile Warwick, Ms Wymer and Clare passed us without realising. Followed behind N to next control, another shared error. He took off on what looked like a shorter split to his last control, so I abandoned the chase and navigated alone. Running up the hill to my last control met Nigel coming down... and realised for the first time in the race I was ahead. Increased the speed from that point and poor Clare thought I was trying to catch her. I think that pushed her along. But her result relative to mine wasn't on my radar. That meant a 1-1 split of results for the weekend. And I suspect on aggregate time we were about even.
I was surprised how Jim made such a well covered area interesting. Well done.