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Saturday Oct 6, 2018 #
11 AM
Run race ((orienteering)) 1:10:15 [4] *** 8.0 km (8:47 / km) +320m 7:19 / km
spiked:12/15c
Australian Long Championships, 8th M45A. Not fit enough or strong enough to be competitive on a course which tested running in hilly country and route choice more than fine navigation (and after all, that's what the long distance concept is supposed to be about).
Didn't get off to a great start when I came in too high on the first control and dropped 30 seconds or so, but that was essentially the end of the navigation issues. Never felt particularly strong on the hills but managed to run most of them (except in the green). Our course had some decent route choice legs; I think I got the worse option on 6 (right; I'd been worried about the young pines on the left route but they turned out to be fine), best on 7 and fairly even on 12. It was an indicator of the route choices available that Fredrik caught me at 6, and we promptly exited the control in opposite directions (and then met again at the next control). Hamstring started to give a bit of trouble on the steeper downhills at the end.
I wasn't hugely surprised that our course went in reasonably close proximity to the Mount Crawford weather station (although I went around rather than over so only saw the mast, not the screen). Mixing business with pleasure was a bit of a theme of the day after doing Channel 7 on the way to the event (a reasonably routine interview but with disconcerting interference on the earpiece; I hope I managed to keep looking at the camera). There was also a bit of a climate theme on my trip home as I went through a few places in the hills which I previously knew as regular appearances on the lists of wettest places in South Australia (Uraidla is a regular).
Pretty tired afterwards, but if you're not tired after a championship long-distance race you haven't been trying hard enough.
Didn't get off to a great start when I came in too high on the first control and dropped 30 seconds or so, but that was essentially the end of the navigation issues. Never felt particularly strong on the hills but managed to run most of them (except in the green). Our course had some decent route choice legs; I think I got the worse option on 6 (right; I'd been worried about the young pines on the left route but they turned out to be fine), best on 7 and fairly even on 12. It was an indicator of the route choices available that Fredrik caught me at 6, and we promptly exited the control in opposite directions (and then met again at the next control). Hamstring started to give a bit of trouble on the steeper downhills at the end.
I wasn't hugely surprised that our course went in reasonably close proximity to the Mount Crawford weather station (although I went around rather than over so only saw the mast, not the screen). Mixing business with pleasure was a bit of a theme of the day after doing Channel 7 on the way to the event (a reasonably routine interview but with disconcerting interference on the earpiece; I hope I managed to keep looking at the camera). There was also a bit of a climate theme on my trip home as I went through a few places in the hills which I previously knew as regular appearances on the lists of wettest places in South Australia (Uraidla is a regular).
Pretty tired afterwards, but if you're not tired after a championship long-distance race you haven't been trying hard enough.
Note
Neglected to mention that Anthony Stoner caught me 2 minutes at 2; I assumed he'd blow me away but he ended up making a massive parallel on 3. Thought I'd heard either him or Fredrik coming in behind me at 4 (before Fredrik eventually caught me at 6), but it turned out to be what the Herald-Sun would describe as a 'gang of youths' (actually, the Herald-Sun probably wouldn't describe it as anything because none of them were 'of African appearance').