Orienteering 1:12:40 [4] 10.1 km (7:12 / km) +120m 6:47 / km
shoes: Jalas Olway
Savernake Event - Marlborough.
Got accosted by a gent in the carpark who too my suprise turned out to be Neil K!! he seemed suprisingly sensisble - the signs of old age.
Good to get out, intresting to run somewhere new, it was far less green then mapped too, but quite a bit of rotting trimmings on the ground so not ultra fast. Quite rough early on getting use to the map, it wasn't to the finish that i noticed that what i thought were towers but seemed to be plastic drums, was actually a different symbol. Quite a few rough mistakes. Got passed by Ben S 10 - 11 was very suprised to catch him back up at 14... and 17. his split graph is almost comical.
This kind of area is normally overmapped, and it was apart from 17, were there was far more going on then mapped (relief wise) and i was hesitant, got distracted and then went to the track behind. Then had a mare coming out of 19. With my current poor state of fitness i seem to put myself into mistake making mode quite reguarly, something i normally don't do. maybe 4/5 mins all up.
Good to get out, had to take quite a lot of inhaler when i got home, but this was my best high intenstiy run since mid december, so as long as i continue to improve hopefully the next couple of months should be OK.
Tim would've loved it.
Neil beat me comfortably, with his move southwards I look forward to some more battles.
And as a bonus i had a quick finish split on my course.. even quicker than young potter.. mainly due to trying to outrun a DRONGO member...
Run 15:00 [2]
shoes: Jalas Olway
Warm up a bit and then to the start, was lucky to go straight through as it was cold.
warm down 5 mins