Orienteering race 1:20:41 [5] 11.6 km (6:57 / km) +460m 5:48 / km
i was hoping to end the season on a high, but it was not to be. i lost a lot of time early on in the quarry, and then tried too hard to catch up the lost time and made more mistakes. hopefully over the summer i can learn to orienteer again with confidence and accuracy.
too cautious to 1, cocked up 2 by a minute, 3-6 was good except 5 i hesitated, map was a pile of shit at 7, lost a minute, then running hard across to 8 to catch ash i lost contact and threw away the race losing 3 minutes...i couldn't work out what the mapper was doing here. 9-11 easy, drifted off line to 12 lost 30sec, 13 map again was shocking, hesitated lost 15sec, bad route to 15 somehow ralph did this 40sec faster, 15 is the most poorly planned leg i have ever seen, lets run along a track for nearly 1.5k with no route choice shall we? couldn't decide my route to 16 and ended up doing a bad compromise losing 30sec. 17-20 pretty good, hesitant on 19, safe route to 20, drifted on 21 lost 20sec. really bad route to 22 losing 1.5min, then i was just knackered for the last loop, and once again the map was an interpretation for 25 and i lost 30sec wondering why the re-entrant was so shallow on the map.