Orienteering race (Glovers Wood) 1:18:43 [4] *** 9.8 km (8:02 / km) +210m 7:15 / km
ahr:170 max:185 spiked:34/42c shoes: Inov8 Oroc 340 V
SLOW - Brown - Glovers Wood
Nice forest considering time of year, (long) middle-style course - 42 controls! Low visibility but runability ok, usually straight was best. First third was rusty on the nav, this got better, but often wasn't focused enough on the detail or the order of controls! Good middle patch, but physically ran out of steam after an hour and switched to plodding round the paths a bit more. Quite happy with the result considering how it felt. First run in terrain for ages and a break from running since Scotland etc. Started to get a few feelings in the R knee so need to get back to S&C. Twisted L ankle near the end.
Mistakes ~4:15min
(3)(0:15) - Poor bearing
(5)(0:15) - Struggled to pick out the 'thicket' holly bushes
(9)(1:30) - Poor bearing and parallel error reloc off paths
(14)(0:15) - Nav to c10 first then missed on stream slopes
(16)(0:30) - Exit from c15 bufferfly to wrong control (c7)
(26)(0:15) - Dodgy RC to right and poor bearing
(27)(1:00) - Exit from c26 bufferfly to wrong control (c31)
(32)(0:15) - Missed on another 'thicket'
Pos: 10/71
Winner: J. Crickmore 53:04 (+25:39min +48%)
Actual Distance 10.60k (7.26min/km)