Running 30:00 [2] 4.0 km (7:30 / km)
warm up, run to start, drills etc
Orienteering race (Midland Champs) 49:27 [4] 8.77 km (5:38 / km) +320m 4:46 / km
Midland Champs 7.4k straight line - 1st
decent race overall, fitness and training work over the winter really paying off on this course. really physical towards the first half of course uphill and brambly. orienteered quite good even though I didn't find it technically hard, good routechoice throughout.but made some scrappy mistakes probably because It was boiling and us northerners don't experience that weather. mistakes- 1min40 on 2-3 hesitated abit to start with on leg because of forest boundary then overan leg and had to come back on myself, then 50 seconds on 6-7 when I caught angus-thought he'd checked up the path for the ditch but he hadn't so looking in wrong place but realised quickly. 30 seconds 11-12 just wasn't keeping contact. 16-17 didn't have a fastest split because I wrapped it twice in sucsession into brambles, ouch!. so 3 minutes overall but that's not to bad over 9k. Good race had a 3 munite gap between me and second. happy with performance, good to see the boys at the weekend! would of been a nicer race without all the undergrowth.