rogaining race (3 hr minigaine) 2:50:00 [1] 16.8 km (10:07 / km)
shoes: Brooks Adrenaline
Okay, so I ended up doing the minigaine with my mum rather than John N, and we walked rather than ran, but it was quite an effort for her. Stuck to the flatter suburbs: Athelstone, Morialta, Rostrevor, Magill, Tranmere, Firle, Hectorville, Newton, Athelstone. 200 points in the first hour, 190 in the second, 80 in the third :( partly because mum was getting tired and also because there weren't many controls in that section. Could have pushed for the 30 points in Thorndon Park but then would probably have been 3 min late. Quite a few teams were late back, maybe caught out by the 1:40 000 scale. I think we were 3rd women so mum was pleased.
Note
David Talbot and Lucy Eckerman won, as expected, 880 points. I think that had I run with John we would have been second, but not by much. Cracking 1000 would have been very difficult on this course; it was the same size as the 6 hour out that way a few years ago!