Orienteering 39:34 [5] 9.03 km (4:23 / km) +76m 4:12 / km
ahr:159 max:180
CNOC summer series - Curragh
I wasn't overly motivated for it when I realised it wasn't sunnyhill, but I saw Kev then, and he said Josh was here too, so the competition had me a bit more hyped again. Knew Kev had started a couple of mins ahead of me, so was keen to work hard, though was pretty surprised to do 180 degree turn through the start boxes.
Fairly clean through all the early stuff, trying to find good lines in and out of the gorse and mostly succeeding. Saw kev on his way to 10 as I went to 9 cos of the dog leg, so worked hard up the hill and tried to keep pushing. Picking out the features nice & aggressively to 10, a little hesitancy on 11, but only 5sec or so.
Had seen Kev go right to 12, but I liked the look of left a little more, so went hard and tried to put some time back in, worked aight as it looks like that route was better. I pushed through some rough gorse on 13 that had a slight trail through it, but looks like nobody else did. Not sure if there was a path missing on 14, but I couldn't go the way I wanted and looped around a little which cost 15sec or so. Turned a little early on 15 too, but only 5sec or so.
Then gurning the last few, got sight of kev to 18 again, so gave it socks, and as I came to the 2nd one on the control pick he had messed up, so I was only 10-15sec back. Then slogged it out from there, and was fortunate to kev push me on those last few controls as I nipped Josh by 1 second!
Pretty sound technically, but it was easy, and good physically, worked hard. Hill race tomorrow could be tough.