orienteering race (Rawnsley Park Middle) 1:00:18 [4] 8.25 km (7:19 / km) +215m 6:28 / km
shoes: Asics Gel 2140
This was the SA middle distance champs - except it wasn't quite. Even the first control seemed to take a long time to get to, and I had trouble reading the map so briefly entertained the thought of it being 1:15 000 but when I looked at the scale it clearly said 1:10 000. Then I overshot 3 on a downhill leg by completely ignoring an indistinct track, thereby leading Fern astray (sorry) and settled down to navigate efficiently and ignore the weirdness. Every leg seemed like 50% more effort than usual, but I put it down to the fact that I was getting sick, until I bumped into Blair at the drinks control and he muttered something about the scale being wrong. My suspicions confirmed, I kept on, sometimes a little too high or low on a control but generally pretty clean. I saw Tyson a couple of times, as the guys only had 7-800m more than us (officially) and he was running strongly despite having done the long course yesterday.
When I finished Phil Davill (course setter) looked at me and said "do you think something's wrong with the scale; it was too long, wasn't it?" OOPS! Admittedly Phil ended up being his own controller for this event because Michelle had broken her ankle a while back, but I'm kind of surprised that neither he nor anyone else had got out a previous copy of the Rawnsley map and remembered that it was at 1: 15 000.