How to not orienteer 101: Messy start especially near #6 getting confused. Had my route picked but didnt see the fact a road was marked as out of bounds (the x symbol had 1 line on the road symbol so very hard to see) and I fell apart, hit a road, couldnt figure out which one and thought i was on the OOB road and fell apart a bit. Loopy route to #11 as well and then getting stuck in the green. Got to the lead at #15, by 20seconds, but then proceeded to shoot myself in the foot.
Ran 15-17-18-19-20-21-22 and realized I missed 16! Back to 16-17-18-19-20-21-22. Lost 16min (11:05 behind Darragh H overall) and 2.89km of extra running.......Not sure why it happened but some thinking to do as it’s not the first time. 22 fastest splits out of 30 all gone to waste, should’ve been about 57:30 or better....but I wasn't! Quarry area was nice, straight forward enough, but not so nice that I should've wanted to go back into it a seconds time.....
160 points behind in the ML after round 1 (and the LL too)
Great race from Darragh H though! Credit where credit is due, good to see things are starting to come together for him.
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