Orienteering race (Northen Champs) 37:22 [5] ***** 4.1 km (9:07 / km) +150m 7:42 / km
spiked:8/11c shoes: O shoes (olway)
1) Got it spot on, up the ride and along the stream
2) Contoured round, up the ride a little and along the wall, came a bit low for the second part of the wall and had to climb up
3) Up to the gap in the dark green, which i now realise is light green, found a quick route through it and contoured around to just below the control. Somehow managed to run right past the flag without seeing it andturned round and saw it.
4) Around the bottom of the crags and to the left of the clearing, along the marshes, down a ride and found myself on the top of an open patch, followed the edge of it to the path junction
5) across the marsh, over the wall and straight into the control
6) Followed the wall round to the ruined wall junction and down the marsh to the control
7) tried contouring, but i somehow got down near the fenced enclosure and had to come back up, was just below it when i saw the rocky ground and the other platform, went up to it.
8) contour along to the path, down to where it crosses the line of pylons and in, was coming into the re-entrant when i realised i had a control in there at the training day a few years ago.
9) into the next re-entrant and up it to the control
10) Aimed off to the left down the hill, Along the path to the control.
Finish) Follow the tapes down the path
Ended up 3rd overall (1:10 behind Joe Woodley, 42 seconds behind Alex Chepelin), 2nd in the Northern Champs
On 4 Olly and Chris decided to go a different way, Chris was slower on the terrain and Olly went too low and had to climb back up.
No.6 Looking at my map afterwards there is a path route, straight through the middle of the green, which would have saved me about 1 - 2 minutes of climbing up and jumping off crags along the wall
As far as i know no-one went along the path, they all needed it pointing out on the map.
Felt quite good running, but was a bit slow in the denser trees
Legs were really tight going up to the start, but were fine on the course
Walking warm up/down (Walk to start) 30:00 [1] 2.7 km (11:07 / km) +110m 9:14 / km
shoes: O shoes (olway)
Walked and jogged up to the start with Olly and Zac, got there with 5 minutes to spare, everyone was tight to get there on time because i think LOC have moved their clock forward by about 5 minutes, when i got there i did some stretches because my legs were really tight after yesterday.