running warm up/down 13:00 [2] 2.5 km (5:12 / km)
shoes: sarva ms
Warmup before o-race and tehn warm down afterwards
orienteering race 1:10:30 [4] **** 9.4 km (7:30 / km) +250m 6:37 / km
spiked:10/13c shoes: sarva ms
Wainter classic at Kooyora. A mixed run. Promising start when I could read the map clearly with the new contact prescription, but then it went south from there, with 3 misses in the first 4 controls. Good route choice to 1, down the gully round the track small track and then attacked from a large bare rock. Passed above te control and had to come had to come back, costing about 3 minutes. Ran hard to 2 but again missed when I was in the circle, another 2 minutes. 3 was good. 4 was a long leg which I ran well and came off a large rock heading for the control. Found a nearby control and made a parallel error in locating it on the map. When I headed from where I thought it was the rocks made no sense. Went back to the control and then realised my mistake. 4 minutes. rest of the course went well with no more mistakes. Not as fast as I would have liked from 8 to 9 but error free.
Positives were being able to read the map a lot better, and the last 9 controls. Negatives were losing 8 minutes with 3 errors in the first 4 controls. Could have been much mmuch better, but it could also have been a lot worse