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Sunday Sep 29, 2019 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 52:56 **** 7.8 km (6:47 / km) +293m 5:43 / km
ahr:162 max:188 (injured) (sick)
2019 Australian Championships - Long Distance
Split Rock, Cootamundra NSW
M45A
I started well with the first 7 controls in a tricky granite section. I had caught both the 4 and 6 minute runners ahead of me.
Then the style of the course changed into some very open running. I tried to accelerate but my chest infection was limiting me. I was still in the lead at 10, but I hadn't been able to build a big buffer before the downhill steep slope orienteering from 10 to 14.
My biggest mistake was wearing new o socks with nvii shoes. The steep slopes were killing my feet, and before long I had significant blisters on both balls and heels of both feet. I had worn the shoes in for several runs. My other o socks were all holey. The new ones were the same trimtex style, so I thought they would be ok, but the combination of slopes and newish shoes hit me hard.
I navigated carefully to 11, but just before I reached the circle I was distracted by a huge unmapped rock feature to my right. It may have been a small boulder on the map, but it looked more like what I was expecting in the circle. As there were no good attack points I had to check it out. It turns out that I was wrong. But within a minute I saw another mapped rockface and relocated quickly.
On the way to 13 I lost Matt Bixley up the hill as my feet were killing me. I should have stayed on his tail and followed him to the control. Instead I tried to take a more efficient route and contour in from the spur. This worked ok until I mistakenly confused another unmapped rock feature. This time I climbed above 2 rockfaces and ran to the boulder. In fact this was 30m short of the control and was actually just one rockface and a boulder cluster on the map. I lost around 90 seconds here and lost the lead to Carsten.
I pushed hard from 13 to the end and made up a little time, but was still 32 seconds short of outright victory.
At least I was still able to claim resident Australian Champion by around a minute from Craig.
It was a tough day and I tried hard, but some things didn't go my way today.
Split Rock, Cootamundra NSW
M45A
I started well with the first 7 controls in a tricky granite section. I had caught both the 4 and 6 minute runners ahead of me.
Then the style of the course changed into some very open running. I tried to accelerate but my chest infection was limiting me. I was still in the lead at 10, but I hadn't been able to build a big buffer before the downhill steep slope orienteering from 10 to 14.
My biggest mistake was wearing new o socks with nvii shoes. The steep slopes were killing my feet, and before long I had significant blisters on both balls and heels of both feet. I had worn the shoes in for several runs. My other o socks were all holey. The new ones were the same trimtex style, so I thought they would be ok, but the combination of slopes and newish shoes hit me hard.
I navigated carefully to 11, but just before I reached the circle I was distracted by a huge unmapped rock feature to my right. It may have been a small boulder on the map, but it looked more like what I was expecting in the circle. As there were no good attack points I had to check it out. It turns out that I was wrong. But within a minute I saw another mapped rockface and relocated quickly.
On the way to 13 I lost Matt Bixley up the hill as my feet were killing me. I should have stayed on his tail and followed him to the control. Instead I tried to take a more efficient route and contour in from the spur. This worked ok until I mistakenly confused another unmapped rock feature. This time I climbed above 2 rockfaces and ran to the boulder. In fact this was 30m short of the control and was actually just one rockface and a boulder cluster on the map. I lost around 90 seconds here and lost the lead to Carsten.
I pushed hard from 13 to the end and made up a little time, but was still 32 seconds short of outright victory.
At least I was still able to claim resident Australian Champion by around a minute from Craig.
It was a tough day and I tried hard, but some things didn't go my way today.