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Sunday Jun 8, 2014 #
10 AM
Run race ((orienteering)) 1:36:20 [4] **** 10.6 km (9:05 / km) +540m 7:15 / km
spiked:19/22c
The long day of QB3, returning to Sappa Bulga for the first time since 2008 (at least for me). I had forgotten just how magnificent this area is - there are plenty of places where you have to work hard, but there are also plenty of places (especially the hanging long gullies with the cypress pines, and the plateau that the later part of the course spent a fair bit of time on) where it is difficult to imagine more enjoyable terrain to run in.
It took a while for me to get my running going this morning, but built into it on the first long leg at 3, where I went left (Shep went through me here from 4 minutes back). Got through the technical section up until 10 quite nicely, and then set myself the goal of getting through the whole course with no time loss. Steady on the two long legs, was probably overly conservative with my route choice to 13, and then finally made a small mistake at 16, 15 seconds or so (I clearly wasn't alone because in percentage-behind terms 16 was actually my best split of the race). Nailed the dangerous 17, lost 15 seconds in the circle at 18, and then dropped another 30 seconds overshooting the second-last, which was annoying (and cost me fourth against Greg). Still a decent run. Shep won with 77.
You know you're in the country: pride of place in the regional art gallery was a photographic exhibition featuring women and guns.
And it's nice of Telstra to send me a text reminding me that I've used up 50% of my monthly data allowance, but I would have preferred them to do it at some time other than 5 on Sunday morning.
It took a while for me to get my running going this morning, but built into it on the first long leg at 3, where I went left (Shep went through me here from 4 minutes back). Got through the technical section up until 10 quite nicely, and then set myself the goal of getting through the whole course with no time loss. Steady on the two long legs, was probably overly conservative with my route choice to 13, and then finally made a small mistake at 16, 15 seconds or so (I clearly wasn't alone because in percentage-behind terms 16 was actually my best split of the race). Nailed the dangerous 17, lost 15 seconds in the circle at 18, and then dropped another 30 seconds overshooting the second-last, which was annoying (and cost me fourth against Greg). Still a decent run. Shep won with 77.
You know you're in the country: pride of place in the regional art gallery was a photographic exhibition featuring women and guns.
And it's nice of Telstra to send me a text reminding me that I've used up 50% of my monthly data allowance, but I would have preferred them to do it at some time other than 5 on Sunday morning.