Orienteering race 39:40 [5] *** 6.4 km (6:12 / km) +190m 5:24 / km
spiked:17/24c shoes: inov8 ORoc 340
British Middle Champs on Stanton Moor, thought that I could do quite well in this race. Unfortunately I decided to bomb it off at the start, and find my way through a nice techy bit as fast as possible. Didnt work very well...
! was crap, 2 was crap, 3 was crap, then I went on a role for 4 and 5, but then 6 was crap. So after a start like that I wasn't in the best of moods and the orienteering was just crap. Elkington caught me on the way to 8 and messed that up too, Elkington was behind me going to 9 and then I lost him going into 10 and managed to gain some distance on him after that because I didnt see him again. Lost a bit of time on 13 just in the circle. Was just off at 16, but it was these small mistakes now that were just adding to my annoyance. After that got them all clean but the last bit was pretty easy.
So overall this race sucked, I suppose one positive I can take from the race is that I didn't lose my eyebrow...
Lost about 8 minutes maybe 8 and a half. Banterful