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Sunday Feb 3, 2013 #
Orienteering race (WIM Winter Warmer) 1:09:22 [4] 10.97 km (6:19 / km) +150m 5:55 / km
slept:6.0 shoes: inov8 Mudclaw300 Yellow1
WIM Winter Warmer on Ibsley Common - 10.2km brown course. A long way and the heather made it hard work.
Couldn't see much of the area before the start and was the first brown starter for some time so nobody to follow - start on a path junction with an immediate decision point... Very quick to decide where to go and got 1 ok - then in avoiding a marsh ended up looking on the wrong hill for 2 - c60-75s lost. Unsure to 3 but the contour features were unmistakeable. Knocked off track going into 6 by a smart looking OUOC athlete looking in the wrong place - didn't cost me any time though.
Was then running with Mark pretty much from here to the finish (7-8km!) - was ahead until just after 11 and ended up leading him in to most - took an odd exit from 8 so I wouldn't give the site away - he missed it. Bit dead for the slog up to 12 but held on to Mark through here and for most of the long leg down to 14.
Ankle twisted crossing path halfway 13-14. Got going again after a bit and suspect no major damage done. Followed Mark a bit to save navigating, identifying which level I should be on but then getting distracted by a big path that fitted the map but parallel to where I wanted. Slow out to 15 - went cross country through the bracken. Unsure if the fire was mapped or was just obscured by the control number.
Surprised to see Mark still exiting 16 as I entered as thought I'd slowed a lot. Managed to not get lost to 17 so overtook him before the really horrid heather around 18. Managed to fall off the path 21-22 before a slow 9s run in split.
Think I lost about 3 mins. Felt like I was running well through the heather. Was (just) 5th when I downloaded - 4 mins down on Burley, 2.5 mins on Dale. Probably one of my top 6 best runs but suspect it won't be a top 6 score.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/269178611
Couldn't see much of the area before the start and was the first brown starter for some time so nobody to follow - start on a path junction with an immediate decision point... Very quick to decide where to go and got 1 ok - then in avoiding a marsh ended up looking on the wrong hill for 2 - c60-75s lost. Unsure to 3 but the contour features were unmistakeable. Knocked off track going into 6 by a smart looking OUOC athlete looking in the wrong place - didn't cost me any time though.
Was then running with Mark pretty much from here to the finish (7-8km!) - was ahead until just after 11 and ended up leading him in to most - took an odd exit from 8 so I wouldn't give the site away - he missed it. Bit dead for the slog up to 12 but held on to Mark through here and for most of the long leg down to 14.
Ankle twisted crossing path halfway 13-14. Got going again after a bit and suspect no major damage done. Followed Mark a bit to save navigating, identifying which level I should be on but then getting distracted by a big path that fitted the map but parallel to where I wanted. Slow out to 15 - went cross country through the bracken. Unsure if the fire was mapped or was just obscured by the control number.
Surprised to see Mark still exiting 16 as I entered as thought I'd slowed a lot. Managed to not get lost to 17 so overtook him before the really horrid heather around 18. Managed to fall off the path 21-22 before a slow 9s run in split.
Think I lost about 3 mins. Felt like I was running well through the heather. Was (just) 5th when I downloaded - 4 mins down on Burley, 2.5 mins on Dale. Probably one of my top 6 best runs but suspect it won't be a top 6 score.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/269178611