Warming up round Fell Foot park. Had limited myself to 6 pints on the 1st night of Simon's stag, so upper body felt OK really. Legs however felt absolutely empty.
9 AM
Running race 17:32 [5] 3.1 mi (5:39 / mi) +50m5:23 / mi
Fell Foot parkrun - 2nd, 17.32 Great venue, great weather and great battle at the front. Tucked in to begin with but found myself in front after a mile, having held my pace. The problem which probably cost me dearly was that I was then solo into the strong headwind off Windermere for the next 800m. End of first lap they were queueing up behind me, and my pride woke me up as a Lady overtook me. Starting the second lap, the eventual winner came past and got 10m on me on the downhill to the water once more. I held the gap steady but once we hit the headwind on the final section try as I might I couldn't close it, ended up 9s down. Not a bad time really given only 4 people have broken 17, certainly a better run than the last 2.
Running warm up/down 9:40 [2] 1.2 mi (8:03 / mi) +10m7:51 / mi
Knavesmire Never got going, ankle causing grief. Wrong shoes.
4 PM
Running10:50 [3] 1.3 mi (8:20 / mi) +20m7:57 / mi
5 PM
Urban Orienteering race 32:04 [5] 4.8 mi (6:41 / mi) +20m6:36 / mi
Northallerton Urban, 1st Didn't feel up to running fast, so concentrated on map reading. No errors on that part, and legs go moving near the end, so all good, esp as the sun was out
Running42:30 [3] 5.2 mi (8:10 / mi) +130m7:35 / mi
Up up up to Adel
7 PM
Urban Orienteering20:30 [5] 3.2 mi (6:24 / mi) +40m6:10 / mi
Adel Village O, 1st
Nice fun event, reasonable courses, if clearly overplanned by RFs desire to use all of his own map. Spotted the northerly route to #2 which most didn't. Didn't feel fast, but must have been fairly fast.
Running1:07:45 [3] 10.4 mi (6:31 / mi) +90m6:21 / mi
Track: 4 x 1k (2 mins) 5 x 400 (1 min) 3.13,09,07,05 - 71,69,71,69,68
The recurring theme of taking a while to get going again struck, though have to be pleased with a 3.05 and a 3.01, got a good tow from the peleton to be fair. The old trick of telling myself each 4 was the last one worked a treat Nothing in the tank at the end.