British Sprint Championships
This past weekend saw one of my favourite events for the year – the British Elite Sprint Orienteering Championships. This year the event was held at The University of Nottingham – somewhere I had not been before. As I have family in that part of the world I combined visiting them with the orienteering and gained a pot of honey from my uncle.
Qualifier
My route suggests a reasonable run, but in truth I was a bit scrappy and slowed in the second part of the course. I should have been about 2 minutes quicker, which would have put me in the B final.
#1 – 10 seconds, slow to get moving
#11&12 – 35 seconds, misread the map both in and out of #11
#14&12 – 15 seconds, running too cautiously
#18 – 30 seconds, struggled to read the map after the effort up the hill
#22&23 – 25 seconds, dying towards end of course
Final
I am not sure that the bad start is evident from my route. I just could not get into the map at the start and lost a minute on the early controls. After that I was with someone else, which improved my navigation and kept me running strongly. Surprisingly I finished in a decent position and a few places up on last year.
