Orienteering (Navdash Pechey Rd) 13:30 [4] 2.32 km (5:50 / km) +34m 5:26 / km
shoes: x-talon 190
Did a properish warm-up and tried to get in the zone before I started but felt physically terrible through the first half dozen controls. Wish that being healthy and achilles being in one piece would happen at the same time as I have been coughing and back on asthma meds for the last few days and I was feeling it early.
Felt better physically the longer I went and kept things pretty clean through to the middle of the course, where it all fell apart a bit. Didn't correct direction mid-leg from 12-13 even though I was running a deliberate route choice. Must have gotten distracted heading in, but I can't remember by what. Anyways, I mispunched there, then followed it up by being slow through to 16 and stopping a little early, then going really wide at the start of the leg to 17 to avoid a dodgy looking creek crossing. Anyways, never straightened up, added a lot of distance and climb and thick vegetation and wasted a good 2 minutes before correcting and getting pretty close to the control. Another little miss on 18, then settled down again and ran smoothly through to the end. Would have been way down on Tomas and about a minute behind Craig had I not mispunched.
About 10 minutes later, I went out on the short course. The intention was to slow it down a bit and make sure I navigated cleanly, but most of the controls were the same as the long course, which defeated the point somewhat. Only one little miss in the circle for that course.
Then headed out for a little loop to collect a few controls for Simmo coz I felt sorry for him ;) Beat one group of competitors to one of the controls... Oops.