Orienteering race 36:41 [4] * 8.05 km (4:33 / km) +40m 4:27 / km
slept:6.3 weight:69.1kg shoes: Adizero Tempo
Metro series Karawara. Started out towards 27 and noticed most of the contenders were going the same way with a bit of a gap ahead of me. Steve came in to 27 from the other direction so I thought he must have gone to 20 first and was already a control up on me. Could only see Sten and Steve going to 30 and then they both headed to 24 while I went back to 20 so on my own or with medium course runners after that. Didn't see tRicky, Oscar or Ben after 27 but wasn't sure if they had gone a different way or just run ahead out of sight. Met Liam at 20 which made me feel better about not going there first. Worked out I wanted to get the 3 in the park to the west which made the rest of the course pretty obvious so had it all settled by the time I got to 24 I think. Pretty hot so tried to just run solid and keep a steady pace all the way rather than pushing really hard. Met Liam again near 16 I think. Saw Sten just ahead near 17 and he must have had the same number of controls as me at that point. He went to 20 next and skipped 6 later which may have been to my advantage but I finished much stronger than him anyway. Started to feel the heat a bit by the time I reached the west end but not much left from there so I still finished off fairly strongly, last km was my fastest by quite a bit.
Km splits 4:39, 4:45, 4:36, 4:29, 4:38, 4:47, 4:12.
Got the win by about 30 seconds from Oscar who did fairly close to the reverse route and another 30 seconds back to tRicky who I assume went much further.
Running warm up/down 23:00 [2] 3.8 km (6:03 / km) +20m 5:54 / km
shoes: Adizero Tempo
About 200m of warming up and 3.6km of collecting controls afterwards.