Orienteering race (NavDash Guildford) 18:30 [4] ** 3.7 km (5:00 / km)
shoes: Helly Hansen Trailcutters
Took this one quite easy, just to make sure I didnt do anything silly to my legs for next week. My L calf stiff pulled up a teeny bit sore however.
Went out after Boltboi and in front of Rachel and Ben. My slow pace meant I didnt catch Boltoi until 14, after we both went right around the building and had to keep going past the impasable we both didnt see on the map. Only other issue was having to retry 14 to 15 after trying to decend an less-than-mapped mountainside to the left of the OOB area and also seeing what looked like than a more-than-mapped swamp further on. Boltboi and Ben passed me here and tailed each other thru to the finish.
Bought a new Salomon pack for the run next week - had to break my general rule of 'never pay retail' for stuff like this - I reckon the markup on materials and labour for the thing would be easily 1000%.