2017 Oceania Championships
Long Distance
1st in M40A
Rototoa - Woodhill forest (northern end)
This was quite different to the usual Woodhill dunes maps. There was quite a bit of low visibility forest early, and larger slopes with some sandstone cliffs. This was not unlike some pine forest in the Adelaide Hills. Later there were lots of complex contours, some in pine forest, and others in native forest.
Most of the field made lots of mistakes. My run was steady. Nothing fantastic, but no big errors. Somehow this was enough for a 7 minute win.
I was unsure heading to 5, so my tactic ended up pushing hard to hit the track and then coming back in. This probably only lost me between 30s to 1min, but saved 5 minutes of wandering around a vague slope.