Orienteering race (Dryandra West) 1:16:26 [4] *** 15.43 km (4:57 / km) +290m 4:32 / km
ahr:156 max:166 spiked:20/22c shoes: Brooks Cascadia Pivot
Day 2 of Autumn classic and state series event. Trying to run hard this time but felt I was struggling a bit for the first half. Kind of felt as though I had a cold or something but it may have just been due to the cold air with my early start. I wanted to start early to get back in time for Rachel to get a fairly early start since she was running the H1 too. Happy with my orienteering. Only 2 small mistakes which weren't too bad. Ran underneath 11 and came back off the next creek. A bit off line on 15 and took a while to convince myself I had really come out at the Eastern clearings. Looking at the GPS track it seems rocks at 14 are spread out a bit more on the map than in reality so I wasn't as far off my bearing as it looked. I was feeling better physically as it warmed up so I pushed it pretty hard coming home after the technical section from 13 to 18 and felt strong into the finish. I think my heel hurt a bit at times but not enough for me to remember it clearly.
Running warm up/down 17:00 [2] 3.0 km (5:40 / km) +70m 5:04 / km
shoes: Brooks Cascadia Pivot
Warm up run to the start plus a bit extra while waiting for my dad to finish setting it up then discovered the clear and check stations weren't working because the day 1 organisers had reprogrammed them. Did an extra km finishing marking the route to the prestart while Phil went back to reprogram the clear and check stations. Thought we were finally ready but when I punched the start station nothing happened. It was showing the clock time and registering my si-card on the lcd display so I noted my start time off the lcd and headed off while Phil went back again to get a new start control. Lucky I was trying to start an hour early so everything was sorted by the time the crowds arrived.