Run warm up/down 10:00 [3]
Up to the start - a worrying amount of breaking into walking on the more uphilly bits. I don't recall seeing anything of interest.
Orienteering race 58:41 [4] **** 3.8 km (15:27 / km) +110m 13:29 / km
spiked:15/18c
My last hoorah for this tour, so was aiming for a bit of redemption, and given the circumstances I'll take this. Probably my best navigation performance on a 4 or 5 star course/map, only let down by a complete absence of terrain speed (and there was enough undergrowth/deadwood in the forest for that to really count. On all but 3 controls I was spiking them beautifully, and for the most part, the control itself not just the feature, just a shame I almost never realised how spot on I was, so was slowing right down in the circle way more than I needed to! And this was mostly running on bearings and/or contouring across featureless slopes - the two technique options that normally I'd get most nervous about relying on in a race. Lost quite a bit on 2 (again! a mix of being a little out on orientation and keeping too high) but not nearly as much relocation-damage as in the sprint, a little bit on 4, out of the green a bit too high and maybe 20-30 secs looking at the control from above, deciding that maybe it WAS mine, and quite a bit on 17, succumbing to end of course loss of focus and visiting everyone else's penultimate control before mine. Thought at the end there I'd blown the sub-hour run that I otherwise deserved, but just made it! Lovely map, both the terrain and the mapping.
Saw lots of little skinks, but no idea what kind.