Orienteering race 33:00 [5] 3.5 km (9:26 / km) +85m 8:24 / km
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon 190
Oceania Relays, Diddleum
terrain was like a bit Scottish (tussocks, plantations, rocks, and wallabies), tough going, dumped into a random team on M21S, but at least I was in the mass start ... sort of ... they hadn't provided a stick or map for us until seconds before the start, seems the M16s hared off front, hardly saw anyone going my way
#1 most of the field stayed low, broke away but still didn't climb as much as I should've done, got caught in marshy ditch [20]
#2 unsure how far I'd progressed along embankment [10]
#3 sub-optimal route, better to go up to edge of OOB [20]
#4 bingo control in bracken [150]
#11 hesitant: the knoll was a boulder
#14 stayed too close to fence, surprised [20]
slow, but wasn't racing anyone or for anything