Orienteering race 21:50 [3]
Sprint Champs Qualification. As I knew I only needed to finish (and I wasn't sure about my ankle), I cruised around the course at a fairly leisurely pace. I also thought my main and only competition Claire Butler would put in a nice fast time assuring me of not having to start close to her in the reverse chasing start position final (as we'd be interspersed by others on the course). Unfortunately claire made an error, finished 1 minute in front of me and consequently had a start time 1 minute behind me in the final - worst case scenario! Still - Recent experience (day 3 easter) had demonstrated that you can win from the front (not that I for a moment thought that I would but I just decided not to worry about it either way).
Orienteering race 20:54 [3]
Sprint Champs Final - Moved fast out of the start straight into the relatively long first control and picked a good route choice on probably one of the few legs where route choice would have made more than a few seconds difference. Ran well with no mistakes and was subsequently running completely out of steam by the last few controls. Thanks to the aforementioned route choice on a couple of legs won (WON!) by a minute. Am very happy with myself and would have been regardless of the result. Ankle survived and I'll rest it for probably the rest of this week. woohoo!