Orienteering race (AWOC Interclub #4) 1:42:18 [5] **** 8.15 km (12:33 / km) +372m 10:13 / km
spiked:13/17c shoes: Inov8 Oroc 350
Interclub at Tabletop. At first glance, it appeared to be a less physical course than some previous visits here however, a couple of legs were really hard work. Navigationally, not too difficult. I had trouble of my own making at 3 and 7, but several controls were "hidden", none more so than 9 which was INSIDE a boulder cluster! I had caught up to Deb there and we spent about 7-8 minutes looking around all the adjacent rocks before I decided I'd look into the boulder cluster we had both gone to first, and there was the flag! Control 14 was breathtaking (and leg killing) from a "meaningless climb" point of view.
Course was set at 5.5km but Garmin tells me I ran 8.15km and the 102+ minutes was the longest time I've spent on a course in several years but was still good enough for 2nd (behind the mapper!). The physical part was probably good training for WMOC in Italy in 5 weeks!