We were up at the Scottish 6 Days last week for my first competitive orienteering since before Emma was born and yesterday evening saw me running in the last RR10 of the series at IBM Hursley. I can’t claim to have excelled at either (I certainly wasn’t living up to the high standards set by Sarah Rollins who won W21E at the 6 Days - Thomas is a month older than Emma, at least that’s my excuse). However, 13th on W21S at the 6 Days and 33rd at the RR10 sounded respectable to me.
So, what have I learnt. Number 1, Emma can be left and can be quite happy. Number 2, if she cries when I’m away I can’t hear her and she can’t cry for long as I’m never out for all that long. Number 3, her grandma should come orienteering every week with her hired camper van!
My feet feel very bruised after the orienteering, which I’m hoping will pass as they hurt.
Christine,
clearly the problem is that you were born too late. Looking at the
results from the first November classic (on the SOC website) the first
senior lady finisher took 1 hour 24 minutes to do 7.5km. The best intermediate lady took 1 hour 46 minutes to do 5km. And surely you
could manage slightly better than that.
I am not sure what to make of that, either the courses were very difficult,
the orienteers were rubbish or what. But even at my usual 10 mins/km I
would have managed 3rd in the senior mens.
cheers,
Neil
You should go along to the event the day before the November Classic where you get the option to rerun those courses, with the maps that were used (I think) and see whether you manage to beat those times.