Run - Orienteering race 59:59 [4] 10.1 km (5:56 / km)
shoes: Jalas 2012
Harvester Relays, Winterfold, Leg 4. Despite Nixon having to pull out with injury we still had a good strong team with lots of 'experience' (old), with a running order of: Grump, JonX, GG, me, Rosco, JonM and RogerG. Thought we should be competitive but BOK also had a looking competitive and NOC and SYO will always put up a good fight.
Steady enough start from will to back back second, great second leg from Jon to give GG a small lead, who did the business on the long night to hand over to me with about a 13 minute lead. Didn't know it was that much but knew that GG had run fast so it was unlikely that anyone was chasing me that closely.
Had an acceptable run, never felt very good but orienteered okay (done no night O this year), lost time on three, maybe 3 minutes in total and hit all the controversial controls spot on (depressions in the middle of nowhere). No speed or strength in the legs but was just about quick enough to extent the lead by a couple of minutes.
Don't really know how Ross and Jon ran as I went back to bed, but it must have been pretty good as Roger was set off with the best part of a 30 minute lead. He ran the last leg perfectly, not being stupid and keeping it together to give us something like a 25 minutes win over NOC.
Great team performance, solid runs throughout and significant errors not being present in anyone's run. Made even better by the girls winning the women's relay.