I didn’t have much chance to use the running speed I’d demonstrated at last week’s training. With 22 controls you were continually having to change direction and the “long leg” was about 400metres. I’m well down in the results for the 17-39 year old men and I’m deliberately not looking to see how that compares with some of the junior winners! That said, I was only four minutes behind the winner and a whole minute of that was wasted on the sixth control. At number 5 a speedy looking junior punched just behind me and I made that fatal mistake of believing that, just because he was a local, he should know where he’s going!
Unfortunately of the series of five weekly races I can only make one more. Shame really as it was good fun. Particularly when it’s just a ten minute run from the finish to get back home.