Orienteering 47:37 [5] 4.8 mi (9:55 / mi)
British Middle Champs on Wendover. No, really, on Wendover.
Tried hard and had a really cool run (a phrase which here means went clean and glacially slowly). Got a grandstand view on board this year's faster-than-me train featuring, inter alia, Roger Thetford, Mike Johnson, John Embury and Mark Saunders, and some folk I didn't recognise.
Course was very much of the technical=keep off the paths school, with a little bit of hole hunt. Lost ~90 sec at 8: pit by earthbank, was pretty much dead on, but aim-off failed and turned downhill instead of up.
They did an excellent job keeping us out of anything nasty, then right at the end caught me out with a cute leg that couldn't be done straight: lost 90sec and 2 places stuck in grot.
Physically, lots of faceplanting as usual, but felt exceptionally weak, not just no speed but even on the slow climbs, unlike in Cerdanya. May be a bit coldy?