Cycling 26:00 [4] 8.0 km (18.5 kph) +110m
Cycle up to Shotover - legs felt fairly dead going up Morrell Avenue and didn't think I'd get up the final ascent to Shotover, but somehow managed to but it didn't help for what followed...
Orienteering 30:00 [2] **
shoes: VJ Falcons
Control Hanging for the first of three Shotover exercises - simplification. Difficult to run with a rucksack on...
Turns out I managed to put one on the fence the conservation group were repairing - oops! and unsurprisingly two of them disappeared.
Orienteering 25:00 [3] **
shoes: VJ Falcons
Control Hanging for second Shotover exercise - route choice. Not sure how long I was out...
Orienteering 30:00 [3] **
shoes: VJ Falcons
Route choice exercise on Shotover with Helen as partner. Couple of strange routes due to multiple small paths appearing and old-ish map, but more worryingly lower leg hurting fairly badly, especially uphill - maybe calf related?
Orienteering 30:00 [2] ***
shoes: VJ Falcons
Control Hanging for final Shotover exercise - sprint relay. Most difficult hanging experience of the day as features didn't seem to exist in some cases, and that part of the map can be quite vague and tricky. Earlier stolen kites meant that some controls had no flag, which made things interesting in the race...
Orienteering 15:00 [4] ** 1.65 km (9:05 / km) +75m 7:24 / km
shoes: VJ Falcons
Ran sprint relay, mass start with 8 of us and two different courses. The presence of flags made the orienteering far easier than it was when hanging - I think previous knowledge from that also helped ;) Couple of non-gaffled controls with route choice made things interesting, and some of the gaffles later in the course caught people out a little! So aim of exercise achieved :) Time is a guess.