Orienteering race 1:19:22 [4] *** 6.5 km (12:13 / km) +330m 9:44 / km
15c (injured)
Blue course at Joe Grant. A very steep course with a lot of running in the open. It was perhaps the hottest day of the year so far, making this a very physically difficult run. I ran very well for the first 8 controls, but then had a bad stretch. I missed 9 and lost 2-3 minutes. I was very close to the control, but didn't see it and thought the area looked too flat so I kept going. If I had just trusted the mapped vegetation I would have been fine. Then to 11 I wasn't paying enough attention to exactly where I was approaching the control, and there seemed to be a lot more clearings than mapped, so when I got to the control circle I had to guess up or down. I went up and lost 4-5 minutes. I took bad routes on 12 and 13 losing 30-60 seconds each. From there to the finish I ran hard and well trying to pass Peter and regain the two minute separation we started with, but I wasn't quite fast enough.
