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Sunday Sep 15, 2019 #
Orienteering race 38:02 [4]
British Middle Distance Champs - Chinley Churn 5.2Km 190m
A frustrating experience. Area not really good enough for this race. Some interesting bits but far too much that was basically just a fell race.
Unfortunately light drizzle started just before I started, so really struggled with the glasses after the first couple of controls. Forced to run fairly slowly because I couldn't see where I was putting my feet. Gave up on the glasses completely after 12 when navigation was no longer an issue.
One small 5 second at 17 when I stopped too soon. Lost about 15s at 8 (probably on the 8-9 leg time) because the last number of the control code had rubbed off and it looked like 115 instead of 151. Realised after leaving it that it hadn't been what I expected and had to go back.
But the big mistake was on the second last control (80s?). No. 24 was in the wrong place - 25m further along the slope than it should have been (and too high). Left it carefully on a bearing and missed 25 - just wasn't expecting to have to look that much to the left. Ended up further down the slope trying to work out what had happened, and just couldn't understand it - didn't see how I could have missed the control by more than a few metres. Annoying. Went back to it afterwards, which is how I know how far wrong 24 was.
Finding it all a bit of a struggle physically anyway.
A frustrating experience. Area not really good enough for this race. Some interesting bits but far too much that was basically just a fell race.
Unfortunately light drizzle started just before I started, so really struggled with the glasses after the first couple of controls. Forced to run fairly slowly because I couldn't see where I was putting my feet. Gave up on the glasses completely after 12 when navigation was no longer an issue.
One small 5 second at 17 when I stopped too soon. Lost about 15s at 8 (probably on the 8-9 leg time) because the last number of the control code had rubbed off and it looked like 115 instead of 151. Realised after leaving it that it hadn't been what I expected and had to go back.
But the big mistake was on the second last control (80s?). No. 24 was in the wrong place - 25m further along the slope than it should have been (and too high). Left it carefully on a bearing and missed 25 - just wasn't expecting to have to look that much to the left. Ended up further down the slope trying to work out what had happened, and just couldn't understand it - didn't see how I could have missed the control by more than a few metres. Annoying. Went back to it afterwards, which is how I know how far wrong 24 was.
Finding it all a bit of a struggle physically anyway.