Orienteering race 40:19 [3] 3.2 km (12:36 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 X-Talon 2nd pair
Day 2 of Scottish 6 Days M65S. Much better today and finished 2nd, 1:40 down but could have found 2-3 minutes. The map and area were better too, still very wet and boggy, but the contours inparticular were easy to understand. The course was in two halves, start to 6 in open glaciated terrain with many knolls, cliffs and marshes, while after 6 we entered a very dark mature pine forest, part of a deer park.
Went to wrong knoll at 1 - 20-30 secs, 2 was a long leg which I did well until the last 50m, another 30 secs, 4-9 went ok, 10 I went too far left and lost maybe a minute. Could have been a bit more confident going into a few others too.
Organisation not so good - parking area was 2km from the arena, but traffic queued up a further 2km further out, and the organisers had to allow a punch start for the hundreds of people who - like us - got to the start late through no fault of our own.
Splits available now & confirms above, except 1 was more like 45 secs, 2 1 min, 10 1 min, and also 12 which was a knoll off a track where I could have gone in earlier but got put off by high bracken, 30 secs. The winner was more consistent, his worst split was 8th, mine was 30th.
NB Don't regret my decision to run Short - the Long courses for the first two days have been much longer (5.5 km) and twice as tough.