2 PM
Running warm up/down 14:58 [3] 3.01 km (4:59 / km) +34m 4:43 / km
shoes: Puma Faas 300
Warm up run around Shenton bushland. Felt reasonably good.
Orienteering race 16:40 [4] 3.43 km (4:52 / km) +25m 4:41 / km
shoes: Puma Faas 300
Nav Dash Shenton College. Found it pretty hard to read the first few legs and spent way too long dithering at 1 unable to decide which way to go to 2. Getting into it a bit better by 5 where I found myself on Lee Holliday's tail. Lee was running the short after having run the long and the next 6 controls were the same as the long so he was understandable confident and running about the same speed as me so I couldn't get past him before we split at 11.
I think it was Luke B that I saw leaving 11 towards 12 as Lee and I approached and he looked to be moving pretty fast (faster than me anyway). Closed the gap to Luke on 14 and chased him into 15 and 16. I lost a bit of ground across the oval towards 17 and went a bit too wide not reading the gaps properly but Luke was slow to go around the building at the end so I got in front here. Rest of the course was pretty straightforward once you worked out which control was next but I had to work pretty hard to hold Luke off in a sprint finish.
Didn't really feel as though I ran as hard as I could have, mostly because of having to work out which control was next and read the small gaps but partly still just a bit scared to push really hard.
Running warm up/down 6:14 [2] 1.16 km (5:22 / km) +5m 5:15 / km
shoes: Puma Faas 300
Ran home to get the car to take Amy and Robbie home. Intended to do a warm down with Tomas but somehow managed to lose him before we got started.