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Monday Apr 24, 2017 #
12 PM
orienteering race (WMOC sprint final) 17:57 [4] 2.8 km (6:25 / km) +30m 6:05 / km
shoes: Asics 2000-4
Yesterday afternoon Bruce (as part of his bronze medal-winning preparations) wanted to check out the area for the sprint final at Auckland University, so John & I went too, and spent an hour or so walking around the campus even though all the while a little voice in my head was saying "any attempt to survey or train in the terrain is forbidden". The thing is, it wasn't; in fact it was allowed (without a map in hand, of course) until 6am today! And I know that I do well when I can visualise what an area will look like on the ground as soon as I see it on the map...was still scratching itchy midge bites - there's even one on my ear - on the way to the start (we even got a tiny warmup map, and special yellow chest numbers for the top 10 finalists in each class) but forgot all about the itch as soon as I started lining up on the pedestrian overpass which was very neatly used for the 6-minute start process.
First few controls were in the park - I swear there must have been one on nearly every significant tree - and then we crossed into the uni campus, did a loop around it, crossed under the main road through the underpass (some people had trouble realising where the official underpass ended and the under-canopy between buildings began, but it made sense to me and so I won that split, although I had a bit of trouble reading my way to the next - spectator - control) and then a short loop through buildings near the finish. I took a wide route along the road on the longer leg here which I think was good but then didn't quite have the best exit from the next 2 controls. Ran hard up the finish but fumbled the punch on both the last control and the finish unit which I like to think accounts for the 2 seconds which 4th place beat me by. Did think I was going to be 6th, but one of the Finns mispunched and so I was 5th, which I had hoped for. More surprisingly though, I was only a minute behind Jo Allison, who's one of Australia's TWELVE gold medallists today!
First few controls were in the park - I swear there must have been one on nearly every significant tree - and then we crossed into the uni campus, did a loop around it, crossed under the main road through the underpass (some people had trouble realising where the official underpass ended and the under-canopy between buildings began, but it made sense to me and so I won that split, although I had a bit of trouble reading my way to the next - spectator - control) and then a short loop through buildings near the finish. I took a wide route along the road on the longer leg here which I think was good but then didn't quite have the best exit from the next 2 controls. Ran hard up the finish but fumbled the punch on both the last control and the finish unit which I like to think accounts for the 2 seconds which 4th place beat me by. Did think I was going to be 6th, but one of the Finns mispunched and so I was 5th, which I had hoped for. More surprisingly though, I was only a minute behind Jo Allison, who's one of Australia's TWELVE gold medallists today!