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Saturday Apr 15, 2017 #
12 PM
Run race ((orienteering)) 1:29:24 [4] *** 7.5 km (11:55 / km) +360m 9:37 / km
spiked:19/23c
Oceania Long. A run which looked promising for much of it but was ultimately disappointing, on a pretty physical dunes area with lots of low-visibility country (pampas grass under pine).
Took the safe track option on 1. Hit that and 2 OK, but lost 30 seconds on 3. Took a fairly straight option on the first long leg, 5, and wasn't entirely sure I'd got it right (with the plan to bounce back off the track if I missed it), but got it reasonably well. Decent technically through the middle of the course, although not especially strong. Michael Adams went through me at 8, but it turned out he'd missed 7 and I'd caught him rather than the reverse.
There was a significant forest change about 70% of the way in, into native manuka - mostly fairly clear underfoot but with sharper contours (going along ridges was not a good option here, whereas it had been in the pine). Came unstuck on 15, the second control in this section, not making sense of features which seemed bigger on the ground than they were on the map, and dropped maybe 2.5 minutes. (Bruce caught me here). At this point my body decided it was tired, and after sort of hanging onto Bruce on 16, I got caught in some bracken on the way to 17, then lost confidence on the way to 18 and probably spent a couple of minutes trying to work out where I was along the way, despite not going that far off the line as it turned out. Finished off OK but the damage was done - lost probably 6 minutes in the 15-18 section, which would have lifted me from 7th to (a still distant) 4th and, more significantly, given Australia the points given Bruce's big win. That was frustrating.
Took the safe track option on 1. Hit that and 2 OK, but lost 30 seconds on 3. Took a fairly straight option on the first long leg, 5, and wasn't entirely sure I'd got it right (with the plan to bounce back off the track if I missed it), but got it reasonably well. Decent technically through the middle of the course, although not especially strong. Michael Adams went through me at 8, but it turned out he'd missed 7 and I'd caught him rather than the reverse.
There was a significant forest change about 70% of the way in, into native manuka - mostly fairly clear underfoot but with sharper contours (going along ridges was not a good option here, whereas it had been in the pine). Came unstuck on 15, the second control in this section, not making sense of features which seemed bigger on the ground than they were on the map, and dropped maybe 2.5 minutes. (Bruce caught me here). At this point my body decided it was tired, and after sort of hanging onto Bruce on 16, I got caught in some bracken on the way to 17, then lost confidence on the way to 18 and probably spent a couple of minutes trying to work out where I was along the way, despite not going that far off the line as it turned out. Finished off OK but the damage was done - lost probably 6 minutes in the 15-18 section, which would have lifted me from 7th to (a still distant) 4th and, more significantly, given Australia the points given Bruce's big win. That was frustrating.