Run 25:00 [3]
shoes: Blue Swoops 1
Jog to remote start and back from even more remote finish. I've no idea what the planning constraints were today, but there was no focal point whatever. None. Scandi's would not believe it.
Orienteering race 1:04:50 [3] ***
ahr:153 spiked:28/30c shoes: Blue Swoops 1
Tired, so ran steadily concentrating on flow, which worked well. O'd the last 3km really solidly. Course perhaps 1km too short for M35L.
Any part of the map with a screen on was knee high bramble and very unpleasant, so anything other than path running was a treat. Fastest split on a longer leg with a curvy route, despite not being able to see the kite from 10m away in a ''clearing'. In Clumber, clearings are not ..... clear.
A few hesitations and:
#14 - fooled by one of the few contours on the map and did not have a picture - 30secs.
#19 dodgy looking control site between two of many Rhodo thickets. Took a crafty longer route to a good attackpoint in the circle ..... but the white forest en route was not white and the fence corner was just wrongly positioned on the map. -1:15. Not sure I would have done anything differently.
Surprised to be within a shout of MW. Just need some speed now.
Highlight: a timed out leg across the bridge where Colin McRae (RIP) parked his RS Cosworth in the RAC Rally in the early 90s.