Orienteering 59:02 [3] 6.82 km (8:39 / km) +84m 8:09 / km
shoes: 2013 Orocs
UKR O-Cup somewhere near Newmarket. The map wasn't great, but at least the mapping was consistent - just a lot of subtleties missing in the contours. I thought the course was really well set.
Started off leading the pack with Duca and a bunch of juniors on my tail, which is kinda encouraging - the last o-cup race I did I was somewhere in 10-15th place out of the blocks.
Stayed in the lead with Nick until he peeled off in the first box with his old man handicap and then I immediately over ran the next CP and a bunch of people got in front :/
Lost a little intensity then, but tried to stay solid. Ended up with DD_11 around 5 onwards and though I said 'great mind think alike' when we picked the same route to #6, I was internally thinking 'If I'm picking the same route as DD_11 in an O-Cup, something is going very wrong' :)
It did eventually go wrong again, I tried to be clever in the 2nd box and pick up 'd', which is the obvious drop, cause if I was with anyone at the end of the box, I could skip 'g' and overtake them, but I got totally twilight zoned, missed 'd' totally and ended up at the same trail junction as an equally confused Bash...
Good fun, I think some decent progression in running speed was encouraging and always good to see Adventure peeps