Orienteering race (WOC Middle) 41:32 [5] 6.4 km (6:29 / km) +250m 5:26 / km
(sick)
50th place. Pretty happy with my run all told. Felt rough in the warm up - one of those days where you’d normally pack in the tempo and just do a jog. Not an option here. Dry wretching just before the start - which I just saw the funny side of and actually set off in quite a good mindset - focus on the nav and don’t think about the running. Hit the first 8 fairly cleanly and was in 34th at that point. Then a biggish miss (1.30mins?) at #9 in a parallel gully which I hadn’t seen on the map. Only a couple of small misses thereafter but feeling quite drained so it was a bit of a plod to the finish. Still, managed to enjoy myself and I am lucky to still be doing this kind of caper at my age - only the Colombian in last place was older.