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Organiser's whinge about finish chute flamers and late arrivals deleted.
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Expurgated version after complaints about removal.
I am pissed off with organising. I will not organise an event in the 2009 carnival.
I am dispirited by finish chute behaviour See above.
I am frustrated with people who don't check out event details and expect to run half an hour before course closure, by inference expecting control collection in the dark.
Real Orienteering race (Kooyoora) 2:15:45 [3] *** 15.7 km (8:39 / km) +500m 7:28 / km
spiked:17/19c shoes: Columbia
Bit off a bit too much here. Bang on 40 minutes the achilles was complaining. Eventually I lost perception of the pain as it spread to the rest of the lower leg. Nothing extreme, just annoying and persistent. After 90 minutes, my lack of recent long runs became a factor as well. Achilles second order effects. Only real error was the first control. The rest was relatively straight forward I thought. Korong Spur was harder. Thats as it should be, as this was a long style race, so route choice and hard slogs up hills took up a fair part of the course. There were lots of track options. Yesterday was continuous technical running with few tracks.
Maybe I'll redeem myself with shorter courses tomorrow.
And I'll keep trying to delay a long achilles rest till after the Dubbo Carnival. Just have to nurse through the next 4 weeks.