Friday 22 April 2011

JK Sprint: a good start!

This year's JK is being held in Northern Ireland and today was the sprint race round Stranmillis University College and Queen's Elms Village. After my 6th place in the British sprints a couple of weeks ago I was interested to see how this race would go. Not having a map in advance made it even more exciting!
It was a great race with lots of controls and changes of direction and some tricky routes. I ran pretty cleanly with just a few small time loses to take the bronze medal :) Team mates Sarah Rollins and Pippa Archer were 12s ahead in joint gold medal position, not something that happens very often in an orienteering race! Results are on the JK website.
Check out the map below - unfortunately the olive green is all offset which makes it quite hard to see where you can/can't get through...
Looking forward to the next 3 days of races now: middle tomorrow, long on sunday and relay monday, then off to Sweden for Tiomila!


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