Orienteering race 1:21:45 [5] ***** 4.5 km (18:10 / km)
spiked:16/20c shoes: UK Gear PT03 trail
Deb, Briohny and I went down to Yackandandah for the AWOC Club Champs on a new map. 81 minutes on a 4.5km course sounds really slow but this was tough (and I either finished first or second depending on what time Hugh Moore ran - yep, he made the long trip too, as did another Canberrian, Michael Burt).
The map was a 1:5000 (thank goodness) and had no contours! Total relief across the whole area however is probably only 15-20 metres and there was so much detail - watercourses, gullies, old mining, thick green veg and tracks, tracks and more tracks (the area is used extensively for MTB and they have built so pretty interesting bridges and other crossing points, including a see-saw!) Will try and post it later.
I made a couple of significant errors, like finding #17 before #1, going to #2 twice - deilberately so I could actually find #3 and then hitting the fence beyond #11. The rest were pretty good A very interesting and enjoyable event.