Bubo day 4
I compared splits with Kim on the ferry after. The story of the race is I struggled on the first third where is was stoney stoney stoney. I just can't run through that stuff. The middle bit I could run, and took lots of time out of everyone. Then I took a bearing to number 15 and got slightly off line, then hit a big ruined building, and stopped, and thought WTF.... And after a while of thinking I must have missed a control or done a 180 or something similar, I see a funny wall symbol under the number '15' and realised that was how it was mapped, and that I wasn't far offline at all. 2:30-3mins lost. A 1 min lead lost. I punted around the last 1/6th a bit deflated. A fun race though, v well planned on what was a bit of a scrappy area.
Bubo - loved it. Such fun. Cres was special too. Beautiful island.
Things learnt from my first orienteering since April:
I am pretty unfit
I don't seem to have much confidence in my technique. If I did have, then I would have picked up some of my mistakes much sooner.
I can compete in terrain without necessarily damaging myself.
It was fun, I am up for more.
I really liked competing against Kim and Rachael, even if they did bump me off the podium.
Results / splits:
http://orienteeringonline.net/CompetitionBasicInfo...Into the van, off Cres, through Croatia, through Slovenia, waited 3:15 hours to get through the border to Austria, then on to Germany, driving until 4:30am when we could drive no more. Tired.