orienteering race (WOC trials middle) 1:06:01 [4] 5.6 km (11:47 / km)
shoes: Inov8 Oroc spikes
Coffee had made me less grumpy but feeling no less flat. It was a lovely autumn afternoon out at Orroral and I wandered around reading the signage for the old tracking station (interested to see the footprints of the buildings) and photographing the autumn leaves and kangaroos, then decided I'd better go for a run since I'd come all this way because I quite like granite, even though I was completely out of breath by the time I got to the start.
Anyway, it was nice forest in a green, thick, hiding-the-rocks sort of way, and I mostly found the rocks quite successfully because I was having to walk much of it - legs just wouldn't lift. A minute on 8, maybe, where I left the track too soon, and then I caught up to Katelyn through the open stuff and Kathryn caught both of us when we went back into the green; unfortunately I got my angle of attack confused and started heading up the wrong gully. Took a couple of min to work out that one, eventually caught up to Katelyn again, and Anna Dowling. Watched the Bruce-train storm through at the finish.
BTW, whoever expected that 5.4km for the women compared to 6.0km for the men was going to lead to equivalent (35 min) winning times at Orroral?