Orienteering race (Cissbury Ring SOG) 57:11 [4] *** 5.6 km (10:13 / km) +180m 8:48 / km
spiked:21/24c weight:70kg
It was about time I spent a Saturday morning in the traditional manner, and as Alex was planning I knew it would be tough. Plus Cissbury would be mostly mud-free and good hilly running. So it was a shame, then, that I made a complete horlcks of no. 1, which was less than 200 metres from the start. I was confused my the mapping of the hillfort ramparts, which I couldn't find, and then some of the depressions. And I confess I was led astray a bit by a couple of hapless bumblers. But the control was hidden in a thicket in a hole and couldn't be seen at a glance. In fact, quite a few of them on the blue were like that but I was mostly lucky on the others as I knew where I was so spent time looking in the right places. A lot of people were looking confused and I did a lot of overtaking. Couldn't make the map fit and lost another minute near 17, and having just overtaken three others at 23 rushed 24 and was too far left. Mostly it was ok though and my back, which had been dodgy the night before, was just fine after a couple of ibuprofen.