Anyone know anything about why linq queries are about 6 times slower when querying using active record vs simplerepository? The below code runs 6 times slower than when i query the data using a simple repository. This code is executed 1000 times in a loop

Thanks in advance

        string ret = "";            
//      if (plan == null)
        {
           plan =VOUCHER_PLAN.SingleOrDefault(x => x.TENDER_TYPE == tenderType);
        }
        if (plan == null)
           throw new InvalidOperationException("voucher type does not exist." + tenderType);

        seq = plan.VOUCHER_SEQUENCES.First();
        int i = seq.CURRENT_NUMBER;
        seq.CURRENT_NUMBER += seq.STEP;
        seq.Save();