orienteering race (Vic Middle Champs) 43:06 [3] 4.0 km (10:47 / km)
shoes: Inov8 Oroc spikes
Who doesn't love Kooyoora? Plenty of people, probably, but I'm not one of them. Anyway, this course started up the top carpark and made its way northwest then around the west side of the caves hill to the bottom picnic area. For the first half I felt like I was running pretty well and certainly everything was popping up cleanly as it should but then my brain started to overheat in the sun and when Krystal & Lizzie went past me I got a bit confused on my bearing to 10 and veered left, thinking perhaps I was too far right. On 14 I stood there foolishly looking at the wrong side of the wrong high point knoll (am really bad with my lefts & rights on control descriptions) and on 15 I was too low, as was Belinda, but then I stopped short, then went way too low, which possibly accounted for a couple of minutes. Definitely a bit of brain-fade towards the end. I ought to be able to run a lot faster than this too.