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Sunday Feb 23, 2014 #
Orienteering race 24:16 [5] 2.7 km (8:59 / km)
Sprint final at QUT Kelvin Grove.
Not a great start to this one - busy trying to figure out what the various OOB, tapes and other instructions meant and managed to punch the kiddies control instead of ours. Luckily I figured it out or the rest of the dramas would have been even more frustrating.
The first loop around the schools went quite well... thought I'd missed on 5, but it turned out that the control was in the wrong place - near the centre of the circle, but on the wrong level. (don't read the control description - its all lies!).
Rachel had been steadily catching me, but I figured I could use her to keep my pace up... then coming out of 6 - CRACK - smashed my head on the railing I should have gone under, but completely didn't see. Rachel stopped for long enough to figure out I didn't need her professional assistance, and after I worked out that my head wasn't pissing blood and I hadn't knocked all my teeth out I ended up keeping going. The next few controls were definitely a mystery bus tour though.
Ended up coming through the controls under the buildings with Lizzie and Hanny (and a crowd other of very pissed off people). Not sure how anyone would decide that controls like these were ok.
Not a great start to this one - busy trying to figure out what the various OOB, tapes and other instructions meant and managed to punch the kiddies control instead of ours. Luckily I figured it out or the rest of the dramas would have been even more frustrating.
The first loop around the schools went quite well... thought I'd missed on 5, but it turned out that the control was in the wrong place - near the centre of the circle, but on the wrong level. (don't read the control description - its all lies!).
Rachel had been steadily catching me, but I figured I could use her to keep my pace up... then coming out of 6 - CRACK - smashed my head on the railing I should have gone under, but completely didn't see. Rachel stopped for long enough to figure out I didn't need her professional assistance, and after I worked out that my head wasn't pissing blood and I hadn't knocked all my teeth out I ended up keeping going. The next few controls were definitely a mystery bus tour though.
Ended up coming through the controls under the buildings with Lizzie and Hanny (and a crowd other of very pissed off people). Not sure how anyone would decide that controls like these were ok.
Running warm up/down 20:00 [2]
warm up. no warm down - icing smashed face instead.