Orienteering race (BOC Long) 1:24:04 [5] 12.57 km (6:41 / km)
shoes: IceBugs- pair 1
haha where do I start? A digusting race that started from the beggining; hated the entire thing. Number one was good but two???? I felt my line and direction was decent enough to get to the circle and once I arrived at where I thought it was not there? Eddie comes crashing out the bushes absolutely fuming about the whereabouts of it. Scrambled for a good 10 minutes together to try and find it and in the mean time Finn caught up and was just as confused as us. As we were going into it- fred aswell at the stage of finding it somewhere where I didnt picture it at all? Myself n Eddie two slowest splits out of the M18s and 20s but I think my errors were due to distraction, panic and execution. The vegetation was there but low and not recognisable really so I think that is where our confusion came from.
From then on it was a switch up race where the four of us either ran slightly different route choices or together. no. 5 I took a dangerous route choice that didnt pay off and consequently made me banana with Fred back into the line. no. 9 i was way too far to the left. Pretty much was dying after about 5 and couldnt find a rhythm. The rest of the race was just faffing about and stupidly missing controls. Cramp was creeping in through the final loop but kept going.