Orienteering race (Middle Q) 27:46 [5]
think i have nailed qualification technique :) a clean steady run apart from one 30s miss so really pleased. caught a ukrainian girl at 5 who then followed me for a few controls. at the one i missed she saw it through the green and went there. when i got there 20s later she was stood by it waiting for me and then proceeded to follow again and overtake me on the run in. the cheek!
RPE: 9
Running warm up/down 25:00 [2]
Orienteering race (Middle Final) 42:00 [5]
this was one cool orienteering race, although i didn't perfrom very well.
first we had to sit in a school gym for over 2 hours in quarentine, then a white knuckle ride in an army jeep to the start (kinda cool but maybe not before a woc final!) then another hour and a bit til my start time.
i nailed the first control but was a bit high and lost time to 2. was stood still about 5 m from number 5 (the first one in the rocks) trying to work out where the crag was only to realise it was just behind the fallen tree i was next to, doh. lost a minute to the fastest on 6 but was just slow getting through the rocks and obviously didn't have the fastest route. at one point i was on a ledge half way up a cliff which i suspect didn't do much for my split time. despite the small misses i was still doing ok at this point, however then i lost contact on the long contouring leg and picked myself up on the worng platform making a 2 min parallel error. jo allison almost caught me here and then did catch a few controls later. i was clean for the rest of the course but was feeling really heavy legged and tired.
certainly not the performance i was hoping for. to add insult to injury another ukrainian got a tow from amelie this afternoon and finished one place in front of me. dammit.
RPE: 9
Running warm up/down 25:00 [2]