Orienteering 2:53:45 [3]
shoes: Jalas
Ocenia Long - Ngatawhai - Wairapa
A bit of an epic. Was quite looking forward to this. A bit rough on the first 2, and number 3 wasn't quite right. Then exit/entry to 8 was poor, so quite unsetlled. On #9 I decided to go out to the right. This turned out to be a very poor route choice. There was a block marked as white that was full of green shite, they'd obviously never been in there. So wastred a lot of time, then had to bail out and go up the hill anyway. Then descended down through the bit of white that ended up in a wall of fight, and bashed down to track. Tryed to get it off the veg boundary, but there was more going on here then mapped (though the formline below does show more what it looked like, but i never noticed that at the time). Bascially there were 2 scandis bashing around like maniacis in the shite, and i waited until one of them found it, and then punched the control. Overall a fairly unfair control.
Then on the way to 11, I tryed to cross a fence with a lean on it. Nearly feel off the thing, which was on a bridge over a stream. dropped the map on the manky stream pool, had to fish it out with a stick. The only thing that would've been more comical would've been me falling back into it too. Ah well at least i didn't run into a road cone.
After this my mood picked up, and did some good legs, though started to suffer physically with the heat/ distance and climb. Some nice legs, though the gully was fairly wild. Really suffering on the way to #24, but glad to have finished. I think my longest orienteer ever.
Even Gueorgiou would be strulling to do that in 95.
There was some talk about that it would've been cool to have this as a world cup race. I think some kiwis would've done well. But the map and controlling would've needed some work.
It was fairly obvious that the mapping was not done by Bryan, and was quite poor in places.
I guess the IOF controller had bitten off more than she could chew this week. Probably the first lesson for her.
Epic.