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Saturday Feb 9, 2013 #
Event: British Night Championships
6 PM
Orienteering race 1:18:30 11.85 km (6:38 / km) +227m 6:03 / km
ahr:163 max:178
British Night Champs, Tankersley, Sheffield.
Scrappy for the first few, finding my feet (literaly) and then cruised/spiked the tricky section and really into my stride. 5 mins up on the winning M40 (Steve Watkins) and then I go find a control with no SI or number on it. There at the same time as Nick Lightfoot - we both agree it's the right place - but, given it's the Champs I'm keen to make sure some silly twonk hasn't hung it in the wrong place (not that I'd expect that of the SYO boys). Anyway, having traipsed round every meter of the plateau the depression is on I decide it should be where my control is (the tape on the tree said a completely different code altogether) I decide to go on. Put my foot down a rabbit hole a few controls later which set me back a bit but royally stuffed up two controls near the end - one from not having a decent AP and the other from some duff mapping around the edge of the scout camp. Limped home expecting to be miles down. In 2nd place! And, guess what, take out the time I lost at the missing SI control and I would have won.....
Great place for a night race.
Scrappy for the first few, finding my feet (literaly) and then cruised/spiked the tricky section and really into my stride. 5 mins up on the winning M40 (Steve Watkins) and then I go find a control with no SI or number on it. There at the same time as Nick Lightfoot - we both agree it's the right place - but, given it's the Champs I'm keen to make sure some silly twonk hasn't hung it in the wrong place (not that I'd expect that of the SYO boys). Anyway, having traipsed round every meter of the plateau the depression is on I decide it should be where my control is (the tape on the tree said a completely different code altogether) I decide to go on. Put my foot down a rabbit hole a few controls later which set me back a bit but royally stuffed up two controls near the end - one from not having a decent AP and the other from some duff mapping around the edge of the scout camp. Limped home expecting to be miles down. In 2nd place! And, guess what, take out the time I lost at the missing SI control and I would have won.....
Great place for a night race.