running warm up/down 12:00 [2] 2.0 km (6:00 / km)
shoes: New integrators
Warm up jog before o race and then warm down afterwards
orienteering race 1:10:20 [4] 11.0 km (6:24 / km) +150m 5:59 / km
shoes: New integrators
Hadn’t done a forest race for about 15 months, so was way out of practice. Was tentative on the first, and then got into it better. Was going ok, up until 6, when I put in an early contender for noddle of the year, and dropped 10 minutes. I foolishly decided to cut the corner on the track, drifted too far right and then relocated off a parallel feature. Once that was out of the way normal service resumed and completed the rest well. It was a tough slog, with ankle deep mud the whole way. Struggled to run up one of the hills, not because of the gradient, but because I couldn’t get any traction on the wet muddy clay, even with metal studs.
Overall disappointed to lose 10 minutes on a single control like that and ruin an otherwise reasonable run
Note
A few years back I nominated today as my potential retirement date, based in it being the perfect palindrome. It doesn’t matter which date convention you use it is still a palindrome.
The new job means it didn’t happen. Given that the next one is too far in the future, I will have to settle on a less perfect one a bit closer.