orienteering race (Moon Rocks) 54:59 [3] 7.1 km (7:45 / km) +235m 6:39 / km
shoes: Inov8 Oroc spikes
This time, having Ben Cazzolato chasing me down made me run harder, and of course he passed me half way around, but with completely treeless rocky hillsides, I could see him in the distance on & off until the end. Mind you, for a while there I was trying & failing to run away from Rob Tucker, who is admittedly fairly fast for M70, but the fact that Steve Cooper somehow did 46 min for this course tells you how unfit I really am- I don't think I can blame being a bit stiff & sore from yesterday. Spent an hour collecting controls afterwards but otherwise didn't really have to do anything helpful despite this being a Wallaringa event, because everyone else was so organised!
Getting a bit frustrated by some people's belief that it's against the government's rules for us to provide water on course in these viral times and therefore we will be breaking the law if I have water controls at state champs. Even today there were quite a few comments from people feeling thirsty by the end of their course in brilliant sunshine, and it will be warmer by Sept, plus the state champs courses will be tougher, so I consider that it would be unconscionable for me not to have water controls at Narrinyeri...but I do need to work out a way of making the provision of water acceptably hygienic (e.g. sealed individual-use water bottles, or competitors leaving their own drinks at registration to be taken to a remote location) which might in fact require a variation to OSA's currently-approved (by Office Of Recreation, Sport & Racing) COVID-Safe plan. And I don't accept some people's insistence that everyone should carry their own water, because then we're imposing the purchase cost of the carrying device upon competitors.