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Saturday Sep 28, 2013 #
11 AM
orienteering race (Aust Sprint Champs) 21:18 [4] 2.45 km (8:42 / km)
shoes: Asics Kayano 19
Canberra Grammar - rather cool to have a star shaped map. Also within walking distance of G&A's so when I realised I'd forgotten my control description holder I ran home to get it, as a warmup.
Did a number of dumb things out on course also, running into the wrong courtyard on both 3 and 4, hesitated just before 9 because of a random sign saying "drop maps here", very nearly ran into the spectator control sooner than I should have because of overrunning a side alleyway into the control beforehand, also lost time a couple of controls before the end because of a bin blocking an access route.
So I lost probably a couple of minutes (at least?) but that just shows that it was a good course in a complex area and I wasn't really in race-focus mode, which is my own fault. Would of course have been ideal to be able to run a bit faster but that would have required proper training. I'd have cheerfully accepted getting under 20 min today; as it was 10 junior girls beat me and that's at least 4 too many. Means Liv & Mel scored Arrows points though.
We went and took lots of photos of tulips afterwards, since it's Floriade time.
Did a number of dumb things out on course also, running into the wrong courtyard on both 3 and 4, hesitated just before 9 because of a random sign saying "drop maps here", very nearly ran into the spectator control sooner than I should have because of overrunning a side alleyway into the control beforehand, also lost time a couple of controls before the end because of a bin blocking an access route.
So I lost probably a couple of minutes (at least?) but that just shows that it was a good course in a complex area and I wasn't really in race-focus mode, which is my own fault. Would of course have been ideal to be able to run a bit faster but that would have required proper training. I'd have cheerfully accepted getting under 20 min today; as it was 10 junior girls beat me and that's at least 4 too many. Means Liv & Mel scored Arrows points though.
We went and took lots of photos of tulips afterwards, since it's Floriade time.