Run race ((orienteering)) 1:58:43 [4] *** 12.1 km (9:49 / km) +580m 7:55 / km
spiked:28/29c
ACT Long Champs at The Gib. This was a plodding performance but got round with no errors of any size (the only thing I'm not putting down as a spike is being a bit higher than I would have liked on 12). Well-set course with some good long legs and not too much on the north end of the ridge with all the fallen timber (this should really be green stripe).
The warm-up was as bad as the last couple of runs which didn't give me much confidence, but the first couple of legs were downhill (and the first section of the course generally was pretty easy physically, only touching on the rock) which gave me a chance to warm up. Got the route choice on 10 right (saddle, then low to the left), but struggled through the very rough section to the map change. Grant, Dave and Andy were near me here. Didn't see Dave again, but was back with Grant again at 19 and Andy at 20 - although as trains go this was definitely closer to all stations to South Morang than Paris-Lyon TGV. They were running faster in the open but not in the rough stuff and we were still sort of together at 25 before the last long leg, but split on that route choice and they got clear (I think, as it turned out, given our relative strengths and weaknesses we would all have been better off had we swapped routes).
Last of the finishers, which doesn't happen often (particularly with a slow but not horrible run). Tired without being shattered at the end (though later snoozed through most of the first half of the Bulldogs-Swans match, as did most of the Bulldogs' team), but was slightly daunted at the end to think that this time next week I'll have at least another hour still to go.