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Sunday Apr 18, 2010 #
9 AM
O race (Nganga H3) 1:38:46 *** 7.16 km (13:48 / km) +257m 11:42 / km
ahr:157 max:189 spiked:9/15c shoes: Asics Trabuco 11 WR
Turned the GPS on more than halfway to 2, so this is about 5 minutes and a couple of hundred metres short.
Started pretty well - nice and steady 1 through 5, was slow to 6, but confident most of the way - slight bobble on the edge of the spur when I was a boulder too early, but the plan paid off. Loved the huge boulders just on the other side of the spur from 6 - so happy my course went past them - THANK YOU SETTERS.
Slow but steady around to 7, once again faffing about on the edge of the circle. Very happy to have a drink at 8 - should have actually had about 3 or 4 cups though. Overshot 9, but figured it out before I got out of the circle. Too far north on the long leg to 10 and took a while to figure out what I'd done and recover. Deb made a similar mistake but went much further and Helen P's post-event advice about how she would have tackled that control was really helpful. Lost a lot of time here.
Steady, easy chug to 11. Can't remember anything about 12, except I saw Wally just after I hit it. Easy but very slow to 13. Stuffed up marvellously on the way to 14, which should have been quite easy, but I was starting to feel really crap. Failed utterly to do what I was intending to do. I now think that I must have mis-identified a boulder as the rocky end of a spur. God help me. Eventually noticed I was below the big granite surface/ clearing I was intending to use as my way station to the control. Recovered reasonably quickly after that, but lots of time lost here again. Also, saw Wally again.
And then I just couldn't find 15, despite being within 20 metres of it a couple of times. Came down the hillside wrong, corrected, corrected again, was sure I was in the right place (I was) went past it a couple of times, did some laps of various other rocks and then finally spotted it and led Tony to it, only to be foxed by it not having the number '15' written on it. Took a little bit of standing still and thinking about it to connect the dots and figure out that it wasn't _supposed_ to have '15' written on it and '149' was indeed the correct control.
About 5 minutes after finishing, felt very shaky, wobbly and light-headed. Eventually got all the limbs to obey me well enough to get a super-sweet fizzy drink and a cake, which I took very slowly while chatting with various WOW members. Brain and body eventually came online again and pootled home for a really hot shower and LOTS more water, which was awesome. Long course and long delay in getting home meant that I ended up driving to Matilda Bay rather than doing a train/bike combo, but realistically I probably wasn't up for the riding anyway.
I think next time it's this warm, I definitely need to take more water out on the course with me.
Started pretty well - nice and steady 1 through 5, was slow to 6, but confident most of the way - slight bobble on the edge of the spur when I was a boulder too early, but the plan paid off. Loved the huge boulders just on the other side of the spur from 6 - so happy my course went past them - THANK YOU SETTERS.
Slow but steady around to 7, once again faffing about on the edge of the circle. Very happy to have a drink at 8 - should have actually had about 3 or 4 cups though. Overshot 9, but figured it out before I got out of the circle. Too far north on the long leg to 10 and took a while to figure out what I'd done and recover. Deb made a similar mistake but went much further and Helen P's post-event advice about how she would have tackled that control was really helpful. Lost a lot of time here.
Steady, easy chug to 11. Can't remember anything about 12, except I saw Wally just after I hit it. Easy but very slow to 13. Stuffed up marvellously on the way to 14, which should have been quite easy, but I was starting to feel really crap. Failed utterly to do what I was intending to do. I now think that I must have mis-identified a boulder as the rocky end of a spur. God help me. Eventually noticed I was below the big granite surface/ clearing I was intending to use as my way station to the control. Recovered reasonably quickly after that, but lots of time lost here again. Also, saw Wally again.
And then I just couldn't find 15, despite being within 20 metres of it a couple of times. Came down the hillside wrong, corrected, corrected again, was sure I was in the right place (I was) went past it a couple of times, did some laps of various other rocks and then finally spotted it and led Tony to it, only to be foxed by it not having the number '15' written on it. Took a little bit of standing still and thinking about it to connect the dots and figure out that it wasn't _supposed_ to have '15' written on it and '149' was indeed the correct control.
About 5 minutes after finishing, felt very shaky, wobbly and light-headed. Eventually got all the limbs to obey me well enough to get a super-sweet fizzy drink and a cake, which I took very slowly while chatting with various WOW members. Brain and body eventually came online again and pootled home for a really hot shower and LOTS more water, which was awesome. Long course and long delay in getting home meant that I ended up driving to Matilda Bay rather than doing a train/bike combo, but realistically I probably wasn't up for the riding anyway.
I think next time it's this warm, I definitely need to take more water out on the course with me.