orienteering race (Prelinna badge event) 1:15:17 [4] 10.5 km (7:10 / km) +300m 6:16 / km
shoes: Asics Gel 2160
Yeah, Flinders terrain! Maybe not my *absolute* favourite, but definitely terrain that I'm good at, probably because I can just focus on navigating cleanly and not have to worry about where I'm putting my feet or what I'm lifting my legs over. Got a good warmup when I couldn't find the streamers on the way to start and had to hurry after finally relocating!
Just kept checking my compass, and slowing down to read the map properly. Oh, and having a high index of suspicion for where I might be if I wasn't quite where I expected to be. (After all, this works on rogaines, and this was a micro version of last month's macro.) And picking up the pace every time I felt like slacking, and bashing forcefully through the 'slow run' (not necessarily good visibility). Only confirmed time loss was about a minute on 10 where from my attack point on the clearing I went more SW than SE and ended up on the wrong side of the knoll.
Finished still feeling good because if you only run for 75 min you don't have time to get tired. Don't think I drank enough though, because I had a splitting headache all afternoon on our drive out to Martins Well and up to Blinman. Thankfully it cleared in time for dinner at the Woolshed which I was responsible for organising.