Running 12:16 [3] 1.97 km (6:14 / km) +44m 5:36 / km
ahr:128 max:144
Warm up. Decided to run early as I was cutting it fine for Newark otherwise. Chatted to Jordan at the start who in informed me I’d enjoy it. When his answer to “so there’s loads of paths?” was “not really”, I wasn’t that overly enthused.
Orienteering 1:19:38 [3] 10.77 km (7:24 / km) +424m 6:11 / km
ahr:146 max:163
Smashed this. Not seen the results yet, but for once I didn’t have a 5min+ error. Had a couple 30sec bobbles. Notably 4 where I found a random control kite lying on the floor on the approach. No SI stuff attached so left it at 63. 5 was another small error as was 8 funnily. I couldn’t find the water tower on the map for the longest time. Strange thing about this race was my HR never felt close to 158. I just trundled along. Sometimes spending way too much time taking in the map. Maybe that’s a good thing. Any faster and things probably would have unraveled.
It’s not often I’m happy with the navigation and disappointed with the speed.
NB. Interested to see who went straight and who went left through the start from 6-7.
2nd
Erin Schirm 1st by 1:30.