Owls Count

At the weekend I travelled down to Sussex for the South East Sprint and Relay Championships. For the past two weeks I have been training heavily and I was not sure how my legs would feel trying to run fast.

SE Sprint - Race 1
I started well. For the first four controls my navigation and running was good. Then I lost 20 seconds at 5, 35 seconds at 7, and some more time towards the end of the course. My route shows the mistakes I made in the second half of the course. My time was 17:58, but I should have taken around 16:30.

SE Sprint - Race 2
The second race went better. I again started well, but managed to keep my concentration and navigation good. I also managed to spot fairly good route choice quite quickly. My time was 21:17 - I could have been sub 21 minutes, but not any better than that.

Overall
My combined time was 39:15, which put me in 20/33 - or 24/73 if you combine in the other classes who ran the same course. I was just over 10 minutes behind the winner, which is reasonable. My legs felt good, even with all the recent running.