Orienteering 1:12:00 [3] *** 4.2 km (17:09 / km) +235m 13:24 / km
spiked:6/12c shoes: XTalon 2017
Mt Vic. Very messy. Frustratingly from the start, felt I'd slipped right into a good orienteering flow, with even a rough route choice plan for the first long leg (3) sorted, but that all went bye-bye when I tried to find the dodgy 1st control (the location made more sense when I collected it later, so while it still rates as dodgy I no longer believe that I went to the right place first). Then got funneled down into completely the wrong re-entrant despite being cautious dropping down to 2, overran 3 after a good route to the general area, and got caught in fight (I think more than mapped but did definitely end up in the mapped bit) trying to cleverly conserve height to get to 4... after that it improved (had to really) but I had a second run of minor issues this time at 10 & 11. Also lost some time contouring a couple of legs as opposed to using the tracks, but that was to get good practice. Physically was doing ok especially for coming off a lazy week and not much running for even longer than that, it appears a clean run would have had me just in or out of the top 10, easily in the 50 something minutes anyway.
