Orienteering 1:17:00 [3] 3.3 km (23:20 / km)
Hmm, trying to find the positives in this race is slightly tricky!
Positive 1: my legs felt fantastic running.
Positive 2: my mum didn't see a snake on her course and there weren't any scary spiders
Positive 3: the course was only 3.3km
I was really looking forward to this, and then just couldn't read the map or find any controls, I got more and more fed up, and to top it off I failed to follow anyone properly and get a tow either (I was being too pig headed to follow people). See Craney's log for my boo complaints ;-) I will just add though, that my mum ran on the 1:5,000 map, and had one or two controls the same as me. And her map bears no relationship in these areas to mine. I don't really understand how one event can have two completely different maps by different mappers - completely bonkers.
Moan over. However much I disagree with the map scale or the style of mapping, the fact is I coped with it the least well out of everyone, and a personal worst result of last, five mins down on the person in front.
Have decided not to worry about not being able to navigate on this course, and just forget about it.