Orienteering race 45:00 [4] 8.73 km (5:09 / km) +82m 4:55 / km
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 280 (2016)
SHI Relays - 1st leg - 2nd (team dsq)
Off to a good start with Dan and was leading the pack well until 7/8. 2 very cheeky controls made the pack regroup much to my annoyance after binning 1;30 but soon we were pushing the pace again, this time with Kris in front. Dropped Rhys, which left Matt Dane Will Kris Dan and myself. Some mental gaffling followed and I had to plow through my controls alone. I joined the group again, as Kris began to make a gap ahead of Dane and then me. This stayed pretty constant until Dane missed before spec which made me quick pretty hard. Could see Kris the whole way round the last loop but took different routes to different gaffles to keep the tensions up. Narrowed it down to under 10s but then a sloppy route through the dunes with a longer gaffle lost another 10s before the finish.
Satisfied with that, but still technically poor in the middle. Would have been fun to see what could have happened if we hadn't regrouped. Doug had a nightmare but thankfully Spongey blitzed round to secure the narrow margin to win.
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