Orienteering race (Umuna Badge) 1:42:00 [4] *** 14.5 km (7:02 / km) +500m 6:00 / km
spiked:12/20c
13.1km straiht line. Distance is a guess as I never got my first map back. First decent orienteering event in the bush for nearly a year. Not quite s rusty as I expected, but lacked confidence and had a few small misses and a lot of hesitations through the first half. Found compass to be very slow settling and frustrating generally.
After small msses on 13 and 14 it all fell apart a bit. Ran the leg to 15 really well and ended up within 10m of the control and looking at hte feature the control was on, thinking I could se the foot of the entire cliff fro where I was. After standing confused for qutite a while I wandered off, only to return soon after and eventually locate the control, some 6 minutes after first arriving at the right spot. Grr. Fell apart physically after that and dropped another 3 minutes on a bad directional error to 18. Probably should have run about 90 minutes, which, incidentally is what Rhys did. Craig ran about 80.
Considering how slow I felt for much of the course I suppose I wasn't actually moving too badly for large parts of the course. ood to finally be back int the bush for real.