Orienteering race 4:39:27 [3]
I finished full stop.
Was happy with my start, didn't get carried away and got through the first four controls nice and cleanly and by myself on the way out to control 5 which let me continue to set my own pace. Lost some serious time on the way to control 13, my biggest nav error for the day, possible I was already thinking about finishing loop one and how well things were going.
Lap 2, a little slow into control 1 but then got back into the groove, maybe should have gone straight line to control 6, started to feel a little tired heading to control 12 but once I got into control 13 I got back into my nice steady run with a couple of easy controls to finish the loop. I still felt fairly reasonable at completing the second loop.
Lap 3, poor execution of the long leg to control 1 and by the end of the leg had that moment of do I really want to finish this? took my time to control 2 as I wanted to make sure I hit this clean, once I got to the top of the hill on control 3 got my run back on and made good progress through till 7, went the straighter option to control 8 and picked out the track through the green but my legs did not appreciate the steep climb up the embankment but no problems with the nav. Got through the green from control 12 - 13, went a little of track to control 14 but corrected quickly, then clean through 15,16 and 17. Very happy to have finished this race.