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Saturday Apr 29, 2017 #
1 PM
orienteering race (WMOC long final) 1:06:59 [4] 6.5 km (10:18 / km) +190m 8:59 / km
shoes: Inov8 ORoc 280
I kind of knew, after my results from the qualifiers, that the only way in which I might be able to somehow sneak into the top 10 today would be to have a perfectly clean run (and hope that others didn't) but still I was bitterly (childishly? unreasonably?) disappointed to come 13th. I think it's because I'd made training for this race into my major project of the past 6 months, and all I had to do was to not make any mistakes on the day, and yet I failed at that. Waiting around 4 hours in the rain for my start time gave me plenty of opportunity to get distracted by thoughts of which new patients are coming for chemo at work this week, and what I need to pack for the Aust Champs rogaine next weekend, so I really had to convince myself to focus properly at the start.
And then I went & blew nearly 3 minutes on the first control :( Just couldn't seem to find it anywhere and couldn't understand what either the vegetation or the contours were doing. Put that behind me, and concentrated well thereafter apart from circumnavigating an extra knoll in the green stuff on 6, and what I thought was a minor wobble on 12 also in the dunes, although actually I had 3rd fastest split on that and this may be where I got away from the woman who had started 4 minutes after me - although she still beat me overall. As did 11 other people. I'm so ashamed to have ended up with a lower place than in qualifying, although I can see, from the splits, that on legs where I navigated well and was running as hard as I possibly could (although I've since seen some track routes which I should have taken), I was still between 11th & 15th, which basically means I'm just not fast enough to be competitive in the terrain any more.
And then I went & blew nearly 3 minutes on the first control :( Just couldn't seem to find it anywhere and couldn't understand what either the vegetation or the contours were doing. Put that behind me, and concentrated well thereafter apart from circumnavigating an extra knoll in the green stuff on 6, and what I thought was a minor wobble on 12 also in the dunes, although actually I had 3rd fastest split on that and this may be where I got away from the woman who had started 4 minutes after me - although she still beat me overall. As did 11 other people. I'm so ashamed to have ended up with a lower place than in qualifying, although I can see, from the splits, that on legs where I navigated well and was running as hard as I possibly could (although I've since seen some track routes which I should have taken), I was still between 11th & 15th, which basically means I'm just not fast enough to be competitive in the terrain any more.