Solid warm up and a good cool down doing a few controls of the novice course with a Witsoc newbie.
9 AM
Orienteering race (Sprint 1) 18:57 [5] *** 3.3 km (5:45 / km) +40m5:25 / km spiked:13/15c slept:9.0 shoes: Inov-8 X-Talons 212
Pretoria Zoo.
Awesome new map. I had a decent run. It felt like the wheels came off a bit at the end but I didn't lose as much time as I thought. I started well acing everything and planning ahead well. Was a bit slow up the hill to #6 losing 16sec to Tania. Started losing concentration on the way to #11. Lost 10 sec. Was very rushed for #12 and #13. Felt like I lost loads of time but only 4 sec to Salome on #12 and 5 sec on #13. Lost 20 sec to Tania on #14. Hit it well so must have just been slow.
Encouraging to win despite an average run. 15 seconds ahead of Tania, 1:12 ahead of Salome.
Running23:00 [3] 3.54 km (6:30 / km) slept:8.0 shoes: Adidas Response
Had to drag my butt out the door. 5min warm up, 3x hills up Orion (Derby to Highland): 1:14, 1:15, 1:18 with 90 sec rest including jog down then 10 min jog home.
Managed to swing past schools league on the way home, too late for a run though. Was dark when I got home so all I managed was a bit of jumping around in my awesome new shoes :-)