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Sunday Apr 20, 2014 #
2 PM
Orienteering race (JK) 47:18 [5] ***** 8.26 km (5:44 / km) +152m 5:15 / km
spiked:15/19c shoes: inov8 x-talon 212
UK - DAY 3 - LONG - 6th (4th Brit) - 3rd overall (2nd Brit)
As I walked to the start the thunder began to roar overhead... The wind picked up... The rain began tipping it down and the mist rolled in -.- great - just my luck! :P
Started pretty well nailing the first few - #3 I was a little to the right but after following the massive depressions I hit it - 30s lost tops :) Quite slow to #5 losing another 30s but it was properly misty and I didn't trust my bearing that much after yesterday :/ cautious but still ok in the end, it turned out that my bearing was spot on in the end but I was stood still for a while checking :)
#6 was quite bad and I lost 35s because I was dragged to the side due to the hill shape but in the end it was ok as I attacked of a cave :) #7 was abysmal -.- I thought a bearing would be enough but the mist was down and I couldn't see much :/ 3mins lost on a relatively simple control due to me Bing stupid - I used the compass - I even paced it out but then when it wasn't where I expected I panicked ad it all went wrong :/ (madly searching depression after depression.......)
Responded well with a fastest split but then got cocky I think :( didn't have much of a plan and my compass was telling me to go lower... I thought it was too low however and stupidly plowed on past my AP - the place were I should've slowed down - meaning nothing (surprisingly!?) made sense -.- panicked for a bit an then eventually found it (well, after losing 3mins) :( was annoyed after this and had a good string of splits right the way to the end (except for #15 where I was tired an just missed it along the path! -.- lost 30s and therefore to Matt F and Ross M on that day... Really annoying!!!)
When I got in I didn't really know what to expect... I knew I had had two pretty bad runs but I also knew most people would be making masses of mistakes too! I still wasn't expecting 3rd at the JK after that but I'm certainly not going to complain! I suppose I was consistently in the mix each day which gave me a chance! :) seriously annoyed to be just under 10minutes down on Aidan and Kasper because I know I can do better than last weekend...
I just hope I have done enough for the selections as that was one of my main aims for the year! :/ a seriously nervous wait in store for me I think! :(:(:(
As I walked to the start the thunder began to roar overhead... The wind picked up... The rain began tipping it down and the mist rolled in -.- great - just my luck! :P
Started pretty well nailing the first few - #3 I was a little to the right but after following the massive depressions I hit it - 30s lost tops :) Quite slow to #5 losing another 30s but it was properly misty and I didn't trust my bearing that much after yesterday :/ cautious but still ok in the end, it turned out that my bearing was spot on in the end but I was stood still for a while checking :)
#6 was quite bad and I lost 35s because I was dragged to the side due to the hill shape but in the end it was ok as I attacked of a cave :) #7 was abysmal -.- I thought a bearing would be enough but the mist was down and I couldn't see much :/ 3mins lost on a relatively simple control due to me Bing stupid - I used the compass - I even paced it out but then when it wasn't where I expected I panicked ad it all went wrong :/ (madly searching depression after depression.......)
Responded well with a fastest split but then got cocky I think :( didn't have much of a plan and my compass was telling me to go lower... I thought it was too low however and stupidly plowed on past my AP - the place were I should've slowed down - meaning nothing (surprisingly!?) made sense -.- panicked for a bit an then eventually found it (well, after losing 3mins) :( was annoyed after this and had a good string of splits right the way to the end (except for #15 where I was tired an just missed it along the path! -.- lost 30s and therefore to Matt F and Ross M on that day... Really annoying!!!)
When I got in I didn't really know what to expect... I knew I had had two pretty bad runs but I also knew most people would be making masses of mistakes too! I still wasn't expecting 3rd at the JK after that but I'm certainly not going to complain! I suppose I was consistently in the mix each day which gave me a chance! :) seriously annoyed to be just under 10minutes down on Aidan and Kasper because I know I can do better than last weekend...
I just hope I have done enough for the selections as that was one of my main aims for the year! :/ a seriously nervous wait in store for me I think! :(:(:(
Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] 4.0 km (5:00 / km)
Warm up and down :P