Orienteering race 43:15 [4] 5.5 km (7:52 / km) +70m 7:24 / km
ahr:170 slept:8.0 shoes: O-VJ-Grey-Spikes
NZ Middle Distance Champs - A bit sloppy - mostly, I think, due to my incompetence with the baseplate compass I was borrowing - I'm so used to getting my rough compass at a glance and then spending the rest of the time reading the map at a similar glance & go... After 2 45-degree errors costing a minute or so each, I slowed up a bit. Still was annoying as even quick bearings from attackpoints were difficult - still with my baseplate incompetence.
I think you just get into such a rhythm for how everything should go when you are aiming for <1-minute time lost as a goal, that any little thing that isn't working as expected can really muck the whole thing up...
I tried to use my Moscow N-hemi compass a bit on a trail walk yesterday morning, but it was a far better detector of down than of North. When totally flat, it did point North pretty quickly, but when tipped only about 5-10 degrees, the south-arrow whipped around to point toward the down-tilt of the compass, rendering the North arrow useless. I think the JWOCers coming to Australia will definitely be better off with a familar form-factor compass, in a Southern-hemisphere version, than they would trying to use their own...
Winner was 32 something (Carsten Jorg. was 33), but 43 was still good enough for 16th of ~30 in M21E
Long distance tomorrow, in steeper terrain.
Running warm up/down 10:00 [2] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
shoes: O-VJ Integrator Cleats
Mostly warmup time - did very little cooldown. I wonder if that will hurt tomorrow? On a plus side, my hamstring isn't sore this evening (vs. the past few days...)