Running warm up/down 18:30 [2] 3.25 km (5:42 / km)
groin/hip flexor was grumpy right from the get go. Ironically, it felt better in the warmdown than at any other time, but still fairly shite. No more racing for the weekend, time to be sensible.
Orienteering 17:00 [4] 3.3 km (5:09 / km)
Grumpy lizzie with the sore leg got even grumpier when she ran straight into the course setter's trap on #1 and lost 30s. I don't care if you put a map example in the bulletin, you shouldn't purposefully set the first leg with what looks like the best route choice (spoiler alert, it wasn't) through the newly mapped confusing AF multi level section. The routechoice decision needed to be made at the start triangle, and the sensible ones were the ones who saw the multilevel bit, and rather than understanding it, just decided "NOPE", and went around.
The rest of the course was pretty cool, and super complex. Never felt you got much speed up (not that I could). I lost another 30s on #4, when I foolishly went through the confusing bit again (I take full blame for this one), and 15s later on when I didn't check descriptions and went to the fire stairs, rather than the little path behind them.
Otherwise I was slowly gaining time on Bridget and Tash after my first booboos. Ah well.