orienteering race (Aust Relays) 1:22:37 [3] 6.7 km (12:20 / km) +235m 10:29 / km
shoes: Inov8 Oroc spikes
Same hill, different day, not dissimilar course configuration. I was running 3rd in an M35 relay team with Greg Morcom and Ruhi Afnan (not enough Arrows to go round so Lauren was in M21 with Ben & Simon) and when Ruhi handed over to me he said "132's not there!" so I knew that he had DNFed and there was no pressure on me - only 2 teams in M35 anyway, but the guys were going round in 64-65 and I took rather longer than that.
Stuffed up the end of the 1.3km long first leg by about 50m and a couple of minutes, then plodded south along the west side of the ridge, overrunning 3 slightly, then plodded north along the east side of the ridge for nearly 2km to the drinks/spectator control above the arena (don't need to navigate on this leg at all) then around the final loop at snail's pace. Lack of terrain fitness really showed this weekend but also I am never going to be any good in this sort of terrain with dodgy knees & ankles. Not saying it wasn't a fun weekend socially and good for spectating the rest of the relay, but by the time I had driven to Melbourne with Bruce & Blair & Fredrik (and I got the really shitty bit of the drive in the darkness with the rain and the truck spray) it was nearly midnight and I was wishing I'd just flown home with the schools' team!