Run race ((orienteering)) 31:02 [4] *** 4.9 km (6:20 / km) +190m 5:18 / km
spiked:8/10c
Local event at Stockyard Creek, on the southeast fringe of Brisbane (those with longish memories may recall its place in political history - a deeply unpopular proposal to build a freeway through this bit of bush contributed to the demise of the Goss government).
The locals I talked to all said this was the nicest area in Brisbane. I wasn't entirely sure whether this was damning with faint praise, Brisbane bush not being noted for its enjoyability, but in fact this was indeed a nice area for a run - generally open forest and decent gully-spur, not especially challenging but good for flowing through. Pretty fast; the big boys would have gone well under 5s here.
Started a minute behind Lance and pulled half of that in by the first control, but didn't make further headway for a few controls - we were going at a fairly similar speed and he got a slightly better line than me at 2. I got through him on a route choice at 6 (lovely leg, running free and mostly downhill), but didn't get away properly until the very end. Drifted a little on 6 and 8 but only 10 seconds or so a time, although that was enough to make the difference - Lachlan Howard (who I think was in the Queensland schools team back in the day) got me by 13 seconds for the win.