Backed up from the Sunday STaR with a return to the hill rep course and a good smashing at that....
Summer Series orienteering tonight and based at Epping. First look at the map reveals a very long course to try and get major points. Anyway, off I go, a half hidden control at about 1km gives ms some extra distance. Get to one of my decision points and have to cut short, a good decision as the stuff through the trails along a creek on the way back was slower going, combined with some very sinister control locations.
Got back lateish for around 10km, but am starting to get a little underwhelmed with a few of the recent events. Seems for some reason that the setters think they now not only need to start setting longer courses, but also combine trickier control locations which only slows you down further. Will persevere for a little while in the hope that this is just a abnormality affected by some relatively new course setters. Easy to criticise I suppose, but the goal should be a course with good route choice options to tempt the faster runners aiming for the lot, with relatively "orange" control locations that are visible if you navigate correctly. Too many times recently I've been in the control circle searching for a "hidden" pot...
Anyway a decdnt run for the legs, recovery tomorrow, then a tempo run on Friday before the Half Marathon at The Entrance.
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