Orienteering race 33:53 [5] 7.7 km (4:24 / km) +14m 4:22 / km
shoes: Nike Free 3.0 Flyknit Blue
Metro Ballajura. I wanted to make sure I pushed myself tonight which I thought would be difficult to do on my own, particularly after tennis, so the plan was to follow Sten out of the start to make it a head to head race. I intended to follow until I had my whole route planned and then stick with my plan regardless of what Sten did but with so many close controls early on it was difficult to plan very far ahead. When we got to 9 Sten headed for 11 and I had been thinking I would go to 8. I didn't have my full route planned but I felt Sten was going to keep pulling away so I needed to split to have any chance.
Passed Cameron at 23 then around the lakes and back to 11 by myself. When I left 2, with 3 controls to go, Sten appeared just behind me. It seemed pretty clear that we were going to have the same route home from there so the race was on. I got to 10 first and tried to put in a surge up the little rise towards 16. For a second or two I felt good and thought I had a chance but then the effort hit me, Sten came past on the downhill and I knew it was over. I tried to keep it close into the finish but never felt a chance of getting back in front.