The World Orienteering Champs is over for another year....
Team GB had its best Team Results ever this year at the World O Champs in Trondheim, but unfortunately it was a case of 'great results' but 'no cigar'!
On a personal note I fell short of the mark and although running physically well, my navigation let me down in my individual races, leaving me in 17th and 32nd in the Sprint and Middle races respectively - well short of my goals unfortunately. In the relay, however, I finally managed to pull myself together and after a strong start by Helen Bridle on first leg (who lost her shoe in a marsh - yes and Inov8 - must remember to teach her how to tie her shoelaces...) I took over in 12th. I ran strongly and cleanly and brought us up to 9th place. Pippa Archer then also ran well and brought us up to our final position of 8th. For us, this was a great end to a week. On paper we could only have made 8th position with very good runs from all of us and mistakes from others....our pre-season goal was top 8. So we were chuffed to bits with this final result.
The top results though were GG's (Graham Gristwood's) 14th in the Sprint race and 13th in the Middle race, Scott Fraser's 6th place in the Long race, Jon Duncan's 20th in the Long race and the Men's relay Team's amazing 4th place in the Relay - within 10 seconds of the Bronze Medal - again - so close, but no cigar!
So - we are now looking to France, to Aix-les-Bains where the World O Champs will be in 2011.
And you will be pleased to know that GG spotted Helen's O-Roc shoe whilst out on his relay run (!) and was able to show her where it was afterwards, so Helen has been re-united with her shoe! In her study (n=1) she can confirm that Inov8's are definitely superior to barefoot running!
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