Orienteering race 38:49 [5] 7.42 km (5:14 / km) +128m 4:49 / km
ahr:120 max:141 shoes: VJ Falcon May 2018
FVO night series, King’s Park
Gaffled from #2 and Jamie S disappeared soon after, leaving me/Andy L/Fraser/Brad in a good old battle together. No need to go to Angela’s trail race tonight if I was going to have to run this hard anyway!
Lead changed hands quite a few times before Andy made a bit of a break on the steep climb back up to the golf course from #19 to #20. Order stayed that way (Andy-Fraser-me-Brad) for a hard race right back across the golf course and to the finish....but it turns out that chasing Andy hard up the climb wasn’t the best strategy as we all punched the Orange control (boulder on spur) at the top of the hill at #20 rather than the correct one (path by re-entrant). Checked most of the codes around the golf course but but it never occurred to me there may be more than one flag in that part of the map, d’oh!
Ho hum, still a v enjoyable race round and nice to get a good hard effort in.