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Tuesday Feb 5, 2008 #
Orienteering race 47:35 [4] **** 5.2 km (9:09 / km) +80m 8:30 / km
23c shoes: O shoes
POM Day 4. So after three days and over 3 hours of racing, there was 40 seconds between me, Rob and Neil going into the final event. Neil was 38 ahead of me, and I was 2 up on Rob.
Neil and I had early starts, with Neil 4 minutes ahead. I thought it was game over when I spooned 90 seconds on number 1, but then ran the next section well and caught sight of Neil coming out of number 5. I missed 90 seconds at 17 trying to find a pit in the middle of a flat bit of forest with low visibility, but Neil had done the same. Managed to beat him on the day and overall. I also beat Rob on the day by the huge margin of 10 seconds, giving me a convincing overall victory by 12 seconds.
When we finished, it seemed like it had taken us a long time to do a 5km course on a sand dune area. That was because they got the map scale wrong, and it was something like 1:13,000.
Finished 11th overall. Good runs on Days 1 & 2 (which were my main focus for the POM), not so on Days 3 & 4. Day 1 was the most exciting, need to have more races like that.
Neil and I had early starts, with Neil 4 minutes ahead. I thought it was game over when I spooned 90 seconds on number 1, but then ran the next section well and caught sight of Neil coming out of number 5. I missed 90 seconds at 17 trying to find a pit in the middle of a flat bit of forest with low visibility, but Neil had done the same. Managed to beat him on the day and overall. I also beat Rob on the day by the huge margin of 10 seconds, giving me a convincing overall victory by 12 seconds.
When we finished, it seemed like it had taken us a long time to do a 5km course on a sand dune area. That was because they got the map scale wrong, and it was something like 1:13,000.
Finished 11th overall. Good runs on Days 1 & 2 (which were my main focus for the POM), not so on Days 3 & 4. Day 1 was the most exciting, need to have more races like that.
Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] 2.0 km (7:30 / km)
shoes: O shoes
Warm up and brief warm down.
Orienteering 50:00 [3] *** 6.0 km (8:20 / km) +200m 7:09 / km
13c shoes: O shoes
Run with Neil on the Castro Marim map. Started off in open forest and then finished off round some clay flats. Neil and I decided against the stream long jump that Oli & Shane undertook later, which in hindsight was a good call. Went up to the top of the castle at the end.