run warm up/down 15:25 [2] 2.66 km (5:47 / km) +11m 5:40 / km
shoes: roclite 285
C/D from secret training, including a bit of back and forwards on the new MTB track next to school so I can update the map.
Orienteering (Secret Training) 15:30 [4] *** 3.0 km (5:10 / km)
17c shoes: roclite 285
Secret Training is only secret because I hit stop instead of split when I started running, and didn't notice till I went to split at the end of the run.
Finally did the sprint course that Dad set for me around Strath which I never did in preparation for last year's sprint champs. Amazingly still managed to screw up a couple of times. Once when the straight line from 9-10 went straight through the circle for 5, and I duly ran towards 9, thinking it was 6. The other was not so much an error as forgetting where the legal cut-through (not marked on the map) was after number 8 (I was too lazy to run the long way around.
Map reading was atrocious, and I would have had to slow down heaps more if I didn't know the area inside out, so maybe not the best practice, but better than it might have been and a fun way to get out for a run after hardly looking at a map for nearly two years. Not at race pace anyways.
May re-run the course later for fun just to see how usable it is as a school activity. Now we have 10 gps watches, we could get kids to run courses with no controls out, upload their traces to the school map (I hope it is georeferenced!) and see if they actually went where they thought.