Orienteering race 39:52 [4] 6.87 km (5:48 / km) +357m 4:36 / km
ahr:171 max:181 shoes: Jalas FLX
Note: I havent uploaded to map anywhere since it's really bad and the GPS tracks pretty much dont correspond to where i went. Seamus went out... Conor was standing in the first start box... about a minute and a half after seamus conor went for the start box. Screw starting order. Colm, myself and Niall E. dart to the start box. I miss picking up my map. turn around to pick it up but Colm is standing on it while he picks up his so i wait for him to run off and then take it and flake it off down the track after Colm and Conor with Niall right behind me.
Conor cut into the forest early, foolishly i would say, then Colm a bit later then me and niall even later, we all could see the exact tree it was on and it was full speed. Conor punched, colm punched... but he didnt, the box came off in his hand so he ran away punching it! "come back here with that" I shouted at him, he dropped it on the ground so i punched it while handing it back to niall who was standing at the control. Then me and niall took off after Conor and Colm. Conor headed straight for the green and left me thinking "eejit". I ran up the road, gaining time on Colm and Niall who went through the forest. I cut in then and spiked number 2 in first place.
There was a huge unmarked ride heading straight towards 3, so i took that. Ran past the crags with green and I see Seamus standing looking very confused beside the knoll I was sure the control would be on. "hmmm somethings not right here..." I let up off the gas a bit and started to look around. I could hear the boys bashing through the forest slow as well. NO sign of the control anywhere. We all grind to a stop... I glanced at my map... its not on the right knoll. "where the hell is it?" I look around, everyone is looking at everyone else, colm darts in one direction, everyone looks to see if he can see it... nothing. The Niall went for it back in the direstion we had come from, a moment while I triangulates his path and bam I see it. punch right behind Niall thinking "well, shea will be pissed"
Hit the road to 4. No sign of colm cause he took some silly route. Shea breezed past me but then was slow into the control. I saw him over to the left, someone else to the right and thought to myself "its straight, isnt it", and then proceeded to fall over the cliff it was at the bottom of, and take the lead again.
5 was boring, adn after that nothing really hugely interesting happened until number 18, where at this point Colm & Shea had dropped me and I had dropped Niall and Conor. Colm & Shea ran into a load of thorns for some reason. Shea got really lost and then I just ran up behind colm as he beat a way into the control. Then he was a real prick as we hit the track to 19 cause he just teased me and then ran really fast and dropped me and I just continued to suffer along and eventually came into the finish 50 seconds down on colm with no sign of anyone else behind us