Orienteering 51:00 [4] 4.5 km (11:20 / km)
Got in a large boo today after a shocking middle distance performance - 14mins behind a great comeback run from Shep. Hard to put a finger on where my grumpiness should be directed - definitely I was inept, but I can't help having a nagging doubt that the course, map, map scale, map bag and control placements (#9 in particular) were verging on being unfair. Either way, I didn't especially enjoy myself out there - a reasonable start ruined by big time losses at #9 and #10, compounded by getting in a big boo with the course at that point, with salt rubbed in the wound as course then went through a muddy, steep, bramble-fest section. Some people coped though and did seem to enjoy themselves, so it must just be me. Maybe there was a time too when I was better at this kind of thing.