orienteering race (Oceania Middle TheRockery) 37:47 [3] 2.6 km (14:32 / km) +140m 11:27 / km
shoes: Inov8 ORoc 280
Oh dear, 14th today. I kinda knew this would happen, because steep slippery hillsides with big cliffy rocks on them are not my forte; also the competition was a stronger field than the previous races, but I still didn't expect to be quite so far down...mind you, if I hadn't decided to go through a gate rather than over it, and then wasted at least half a minute trying to get it closed again, I could have been a couple of places higher up. Navigationally I really struggled, taking a long time to get my head around the 1: 7500 scale - still don't know how I completely overran one side gully too far on 5; I simply never saw the first gully - and also not reading the difference between gully & sinkhole very well on the map, because the rocks overshadowed everything. They were quite imposing on the ground, too! When my arches finally stopped hurting and I was able to concentrate properly, my navigation started to improve, but by then the course was nearly over. Still don't know how the Estonian lady took 23 minutes?
