11 AM
Running warm up/down 4:40 [2] 0.84 km (5:32 / km)
shoes: new Kinvara 2016
To race 1 start. Sluggish.
Orienteering 19:27 [5] 3.61 km (5:23 / km) +38m 5:07 / km
shoes: new Kinvara 2016
Birmingham Uni sprint race, round 1.
A bit of a hangover, a large cooked breakfast 90mins beforehand, and 5mins of jogging to warm up. Trickier than expected too, all combined to mean not exactly flying along. Could have done with the bridge at #6 being mapped more clearly (would have gone right not left if so), and with reading the descriptions properly at #8 and #19...
Charlotte W 17:33
Martin W 18:21, Duncan Harris 18:29
Running warm up/down 7:20 [3] 1.26 km (5:49 / km) +2m 5:47 / km
shoes: new Kinvara 2016
Slightly better attempt at a warm up for race 2. Slightly.
Orienteering race 21:59 [5] 3.87 km (5:40 / km) +29m 5:28 / km
shoes: new Kinvara 2016
Complex race which was good but featured some 'interesting' control descriptions - felt like there was a bit of an intent to hide the controls and this was made more so by the description describing what you could see at the site rather than what the map said (three of our first four controls arguably had a description which was a feature not anywhere in the circle).
Careful early on as struggling to work out exact flag location at each of 1, 2, 4.
Missed a route from 4-5 (failed to see some steps under the red line), a bit faffy 9-10-11, took a while to work out the control location at #13 (under the bridge), and took a while to work out what was what on exiting #13 and heading to #14, didn't understand what I should be expecting to see at #16 and got on the wrong level.
So in general, started off not great but careful then got less careful and worse near the end!
Charlotte W 18:34
Duncan H 20:32.
Martin ran 18:59 but punched at the one on the bridge at #13, not the other one underneath it...
Running warm up/down 9:16 [3] 1.45 km (6:24 / km) +18m 6:02 / km
shoes: new Kinvara 2016
Went for a look at the much-discussed #13 where Martin mispunched (controls both under and on top of the bridge) and met him there taking a look too - jogged back with him via a couple of the other sections of the course.