Orienteering race 1:00:30 [4] ***
24c
CompassSport Cup Final at Greenham Common. Brown, 10.2 km and mostly flat. An interesting area to visit, given its former notoriety (in the 80s it was a USAF base and nuclear missile site - now it's apparently a handling area for used office furniture!). Quite varied orienteering with sprint-style amongst the buildings/hangars, long blank legs across the former runway, and fun, more tricky stuff in the surrounding woods, heaths and waterlogged gravelly areas. Very fast!! With a strong field, the fastest were well under 5 min/km. Ran OK, with a few dithers. It pretty much came down to running speed in the end (finished 24th, and 13 mins down). AIRE came in 4th - not bad, but missing a few big scorers.
