orienteering race (night street score) 48:20 [4]
shoes: Asics Kayano 17
It is possible that after this run I gave a very good impression of a very disgruntled orienteer!
After a day sitting in the conference I was looking forward to Street O (hitched a ride with Blair out to Donvale) as it was a fairly nice evening and there were heaps of people there, plus I quite like scatter format. Score events, not so much. And this turned out to be a score.
I didn't want to run for an hour as I wasn't sure how my knee would feel, so didn't choose A course, asked how long B was and was told 50 min. Got a bit worried when the start was late and even more so when literally at the last second I understood that finish time was still 7:50, meaning that I had only maybe 46-7 min, but I didn't actually know what time we had been started! Plus I then started my watch late...
Still, I was running quite well (I think) not that I could really tell who was behind any of the headlamps I could see around me. I went down to the south, did a loop up through the middle, and then started to wish that I had picked A because it would have been interesting to see how long it took me to get all of them. Somehow I started to think that I actually had an hour, and despite my neuroma killing me, headed south again, and at nearly the bottom of the map had the realisation that I had only 10 min left not 20!
Headed north as fast as I could, neuroma protesting at every step, and thought I'd just be okay because from the control on the street end I could cut through the shopping centre. Wrong! It was a dead end which I hadn't read properly in the darkness, and by the time I'd hammered out of there as fast as I could I was over 2 min late (having also miscalculated because of when my watch started) and really cranky to realise that the late penalty is 3 points per min, when a quarter of the controls are only worth 1 and another quarter only 2. Stupid score event...eventually calmed down when I noticed people actually moving away from my wrath!