Orienteering race 36:57 [5] 5.6 km (6:36 / km)
Qld middle distance champs, near Blackbutt.
Wasn't too sure about whether I was going to be able to start this race, and then if I was going to be able to finish. Hammy was good for about the first 50m of my warmup, then went again - very painful. Hobbled back to my gear and slathered a handful of deep heat on my leg to try and warm the muscle up a bit, then attempted to jog to the start.
The first few controls were nice and simple, so could just focus on trying to run, but then lost about 90secs in the circle on 4 when I was having trouble thinking past the pain to actually read my map.
Focused on running more smoothly to keep the hammy under control and got through the next few controls ok and the leg gradually warmed up and became more of an ache rather than sharp pain. The rest of the course went quite well, but lost a minute on a stupid mistake on the last control where I over-ran to the next rock that I could see a flag on, then had to go back.
finished 90 secs behind Rachel, who'd also had a not great run as she's been really sick for ages.
Map was really good - small area of fun runnable granite. Also found out that the property was where my great grandparents had been working (as a stockman and cook) when they met.