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Sunday Apr 16, 2017 #
12 PM
Run race ((orienteering)) 53:19 [4] *** 5.7 km (9:21 / km) +220m 7:50 / km
spiked:19/23c
Oceania Relays. We never really expected to win M40, but hoped to at least be in some sort of touch.
Went out 8 minutes down after the first leg. Running was a bit of a struggle from the start (steep sand dune climbs a particular challenge), with a pretty poor split on the long 5th despite only missing the control slightly. Still, had got through most of the controls in the pine section OK and had only one, which looked straightforward, to get - at least the control site was straightforward, but that's not a lot of help when you exit the control in 90 degrees the wrong direction around the top of the wrong depression, continue to execute a massive parallel error, and finally work out what's going on when you're 500 metres away from the control on a 400-metre leg. Blew about 5 minutes on that one, and that was effectively that; one gully too far across on 17 (first one across the lake), and generally a struggle. Bruce salvaged something from the wreckage and pulled us up to 3rd (2nd Oceania), but way behind the NZ team.
Went out 8 minutes down after the first leg. Running was a bit of a struggle from the start (steep sand dune climbs a particular challenge), with a pretty poor split on the long 5th despite only missing the control slightly. Still, had got through most of the controls in the pine section OK and had only one, which looked straightforward, to get - at least the control site was straightforward, but that's not a lot of help when you exit the control in 90 degrees the wrong direction around the top of the wrong depression, continue to execute a massive parallel error, and finally work out what's going on when you're 500 metres away from the control on a 400-metre leg. Blew about 5 minutes on that one, and that was effectively that; one gully too far across on 17 (first one across the lake), and generally a struggle. Bruce salvaged something from the wreckage and pulled us up to 3rd (2nd Oceania), but way behind the NZ team.