Orienteering race 36:02 [4] 5.6 km (6:26 / km) +229m 5:21 / km
shoes: Inov8 O-Roc (03-16)
JK Middle
Happy enough with this but a good bit of improvement possible.
Felt mostly good physically, definitely feeling stronger on the hills and just faster in general. I think I didn't get the food quite right though, stomach was a bit funky for the last ~10 mins. I should start making a note of what I eat on race days and find an eating routine that works consistently; it's something I've noticed in a few races recently. I'm not sure it actually slowed me down much but it's an added distraction.
My nav was good but nothing fantastic, a good few things that could do with ironing out. I need to have a better plan for leaving the controls; could have contoured to the track coming out of 3 and coming out of 4 was really bad.
Got distracted by an ~M50 going to a control just past 6 and confused the green hash with the green forest losing ~30 secs.
7-19 were nice, I had a good flow and got the short legs in the more detailed area well, some small hesitations on 1 or 2 of them.
I think I was a bit tired after the climb between 16 and 19 and which caused the mistake to 20. Looking at the map it doesn't really match up to what I remember seeing, but that's more likely down to me than the map. Easily avoided by just checking the compass. Got the last few well too.