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Saturday Oct 12, 2013 #
3 PM
Run race ((orienteering)) 20:39 [4] *** 4.0 km (5:10 / km)
spiked:26/28c
First race of the sprint series at Victoria University at St. Albans, a suburb I'd previously only been to on the way home from the (in)famous 2004 Deer Park street-O. (This time the only issue was getting a chance to see why the level crossing at St. Albans is considered Melbourne's worst traffic blackspot, although I was somewhat bemused to see a sign point to St. Albans Heights Primary School - the suburb is so flat that the 'King of the Mountain' leg today was a small ramp).
It was a generally well-set sprint - not always easy to do much with big buildings, which they mostly were, but it was done well. Still not feeling exactly at a peak, but definitely more intensity than I managed at any stage in Canberra, without much in the way of trouble from either of my injuries. A couple of very small wobbles - perhaps 5 seconds apiece - looking one entrance too early along buildings, and didn't feel as if I got a great line on the "green jersey" leg, but as it was one of my better splits, maybe not many others did either. Not always easy to tell which garden beds were mapped as olive (a common issue with sprint areas, which is why we taped a lot of them at the Australian Sprint).
Ended up 4 minutes behind Eon - he caught me right at the end - which is about where I'd expect to be at the moment, although I'll want to be a minute closer before the summer is over. More significantly, Lanita claimed my scalp for the first time, and almost certainly not the last. We were within a couple of seconds of each other on almost every leg (she beat me by 11), and I can foresee some good battles ahead on Wednesday nights this summer (if she runs A). Apart from a bad option on the long leg, Asha was right in it too until fading a bit in the last quarter of the course.
It was a generally well-set sprint - not always easy to do much with big buildings, which they mostly were, but it was done well. Still not feeling exactly at a peak, but definitely more intensity than I managed at any stage in Canberra, without much in the way of trouble from either of my injuries. A couple of very small wobbles - perhaps 5 seconds apiece - looking one entrance too early along buildings, and didn't feel as if I got a great line on the "green jersey" leg, but as it was one of my better splits, maybe not many others did either. Not always easy to tell which garden beds were mapped as olive (a common issue with sprint areas, which is why we taped a lot of them at the Australian Sprint).
Ended up 4 minutes behind Eon - he caught me right at the end - which is about where I'd expect to be at the moment, although I'll want to be a minute closer before the summer is over. More significantly, Lanita claimed my scalp for the first time, and almost certainly not the last. We were within a couple of seconds of each other on almost every leg (she beat me by 11), and I can foresee some good battles ahead on Wednesday nights this summer (if she runs A). Apart from a bad option on the long leg, Asha was right in it too until fading a bit in the last quarter of the course.