MV National – White Downs
Saturday night was spent in Leatherhead. I watched a fair amount of the Six Nations and had dinner at a local Italian restaurant. From the Travelodge it was a short journey on Sunday morning to the event.
When I put on my o-shoes I noticed that my heel was sore. I decided to go up to the start and see how it felt. I started, made a mess of the first control – a lack of concentration putting me in the wrong block of forest. I continued on to the second control, but could not get up any speed. The heel was hurting quite a bit – especially when I was going up hill, down hill, or on muddy ground. I decided to retire at this point and made slow progress back to the finish.
On arriving at the finish I was asked if my map could be recycled. It appears that a course allocation problem had meant the wrong number of maps had been ordered. I expect that whomever got my map was quite lucky – many of those finishing had mud covered maps and the mud was proving difficult to shift off the new waterproof maps; whereas my map was clean.
[...] did not go to the BAOC event last week, as my heel was still sore. This week, with the event being fairly close I decided to go along. The heel has not fully [...]