Orienteering intervals 16:04 [5] **** 1.5 km (10:43 / km) +30m 9:44 / km
spiked:15/15c
Karori Sprint Intervals, round 1. I may have missed better route choices on one or two legs but the only real technical issue was not enough planning ahead and too much standing still at controls in the latter third of the course (after quickly warming into good flow in this respect early in the course). Felt like I was going a bit faster than the k rate indicates - I'd like to put that down solely to the amount of zig-zagging away from the red line...
Orienteering intervals 10:36 [5] **** 1.0 km (10:36 / km) +20m 9:38 / km
spiked:11/14c
Round 2. Legs a bit heavy even though I'd tried to jog around as much as possible between intervals. Definitely missed a better route choice to 1 - sucked into starting the same way as I'd started the first loop when staying out of the buildings would have been much smoother, but executed it well anyway. Stopped wrong side of small building for 12. Had an unneccesary long pause at loop 1's finish control, more a process error than navigation. Also particularly in the first part of the course everything was coming up too quickly, despite the fact I was probably moving slower, was never really reading ahead and still have very little idea what was happening around 6 & 7, apart from that I found both controls!
Orienteering intervals 6:37 [5] ***** 0.5 km (13:14 / km) +10m 12:02 / km
spiked:5/9c
Round 3. A fine display of headless chookery. With only a handful of new controls, probably guilty of too much 'I know where that is' and not enough navigation, plus after the first control there was no opportunity for a mental breather until leaving the 8th, but whatever the cause basically if there was a mistake available I happily volunteered to make it. I suspect the evil course setter knew exactly what she was doing putting this loop last.
Thanks Lizzie, both for your part in making this happen and also putting my setting-from-a-distance issues in perspective!