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Sunday May 13, 2018 #
11 AM
Run race ((orienteering)) 53:37 [4] *** 5.3 km (10:07 / km) +265m 8:06 / km
spiked:17/18c
ACT Middle Championships at Orroral Crossing. When I first started orienteering this had the reputation as the ACT's most fearsome area (it had been used for the 1977 Australian Championships) - at one event a friend of Dad's bravely/foolhardily decided to take on a hard course here in his first attempt at the sport (I don't think there was a second attempt). It gradually opened up in the 1990s before being burnt again in 2003 (the original thickness having been in response to a 1952 fire). This was the first time I'd been back since then.
I'm not quite sure why the first control was on a track junction, but after that it got more interesting - some decent running areas and some patches of green, a stretch in the open on the other side of the river, then some pretty tough green coming back. This was generally a consistent run, hitting the more dangerous controls OK, and playing it safe on 14 and 16 which both had major potential for trouble. As with yesterday, not quite as far off the pace as I've been for most of this year. Found myself in the midst of a junior train at the end, which may have helped me to what will surely be a season highlight - beating Martin Dent on the finish split. (He managed to lose the small track which ran for some of the way in). Matt Doyle did 38, Matt Crane 40.
I'm not quite sure why the first control was on a track junction, but after that it got more interesting - some decent running areas and some patches of green, a stretch in the open on the other side of the river, then some pretty tough green coming back. This was generally a consistent run, hitting the more dangerous controls OK, and playing it safe on 14 and 16 which both had major potential for trouble. As with yesterday, not quite as far off the pace as I've been for most of this year. Found myself in the midst of a junior train at the end, which may have helped me to what will surely be a season highlight - beating Martin Dent on the finish split. (He managed to lose the small track which ran for some of the way in). Matt Doyle did 38, Matt Crane 40.