orienteering race (South Sydney Summer Serie) 43:36 [4]
shoes: Asics Kayano 19
After in-law visiting this morning I talked the boy into taking me to street O at Marrickville. Being wise to the tactics employed by highly competitive orienteers who study their maps in detail before beginning the 45-minute score, I got him to help me plan a route :)
Decided to do everything north of Cooks River first and then see how much time I had left. This took me slightly longer than anticipated because I couldn't find a laneway which turned out to have an impassable wall at the end I was approaching from, and because there was a control in the wrong place (possibly circle misplaced, rather than control, but some other controls weren't the same distance along the street on the ground as they were on the map).
Anyway, I crossed the (tidal, with mangroves) river at about 30 min and panicked a bit about getting back and so went to a 20 & 10 on the near side of the main road when in hindsight I should have swapped them for 2x30 and a 10 on the far side - as it was I only got 470 points and was back with a minute and a half to spare. But I was running more strongly than I have for a while, and weirdly, my legs didn't hurt. Maybe standing in salt water yesterday was good for them.