Running warm up/down 35:00 [2] 2.5 km (14:00 / km) +50m 12:44 / km
shoes: VJ Twister #2
WU/WD in relation to th BEMC.
Orienteering race (BEOC - Middle) 39:49 [5] **** 6.2 km (6:25 / km) +175m 5:38 / km
ahr:174 max:183 spiked:25/29c shoes: VJ Twister #2
BEOC Middle - Grace Dieu
Have to be pretty happy with that really, certainly not clean but felt the best running I have this season.
Got #1 nicely but was slightly hesitant into #2 as I hadn't visualised properly. #3 was fine the went up the wrong path to #4 without realising and lost about 30-40s by relocating, having to climb obver a rocky densely vegetated hill and the extra distance. 5-9 was goo and got in a good rythem. I was confident going into #10 but as soon as I got past the crag (my AP) things didn't seam quite right. after ~30s of trying to relocate I luckily spotted it up the hill over the bilberry. Lost another 30s at 11 - thought I had spotted the green screened stuff just before the control; obviously hadn't as I later realised that was thick bilberry. Anyway eventually stumbled across it.
Fine through to 16 and decided to come straight back out of 16 the way I went in. However the hill didn't look that steep so I went straight up. Bad mistake ended up doubling back to climb down and lost 20-30s as a result. From here to 22 was the best part of my course and although slightly hesitant into 23. Poor route out of 23 lost me a little more time and was slightly hesitant on 25.
Coming out of 26 I hit the edge of the field and a large patch of nettles. I have a big phobia of them ever since 'that Harvester' so wasted 40s by running back where I had just come from to find away around.
Slight miss on the last control lost me another 20s which lost me a place to Duncan - bugger.
Total loss ~3:30