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Sunday Mar 29, 2015 #
9 AM
Orienteering - Bush (NOY1 Fairley Dams) 1:00:27 [3] ** 6.2 km (9:45 / km)
15c shoes: Salomons June 2014
Medium Hard.
15 Controls. Nominal 4.7 km distance.
Ended up coming 5th of 24 competitors which is a good result for me.
Tim Tew was first starter 2 minutes ahead. Caught him on way to #2 and it took me until #4 to overtake then deliberately took a different route to #5 and lost him completely.
#1 Slight search as was mentally 'warming up' to return to bush.
#2 No issues.
#3 Slight search with Tim Tew.
#4 Bright shining new flag gave this ones position away!
#5 From #4 to #5 I went up along the top of cliffline so could see this easily from above.
#6 No issues.
#7 No issues.
#8 Got to this one after passing control 176 out in the open (which later turned out to be on the Moderate Long course) and found what I thought was the correct boulders. Looked around briefly as said I better go up to the road to relocate and then took about 2 steps and saw the control a few metres away.
#9 No issues. Nicolle Haigh just behind me.
#10 No issues. Chasing Nicole Haigh.
#11 No issues. Chasing Nicole Haigh.
#12 Slight search before being lead to it by another competitor.
#13 Elected to go up to the road and approach from west. Found the car wreck control first (which later turned out to be on the Moderate Long course) and then on to the correct one.
#14 Slight search.
#15 No issues.
NOTE :
Also pleasing was that all the pre-work in setting the Bush Results page paid off and I had to do ZERO to get the results up.
ie the pre-established link to NOY1 Results worked immediately the results were uploaded
ie the NOY results table worked
Just have to wait for the normal issues with misspelt names and will have to create the link to Routegadget once the Map ID is assigned.
15 Controls. Nominal 4.7 km distance.
Ended up coming 5th of 24 competitors which is a good result for me.
Tim Tew was first starter 2 minutes ahead. Caught him on way to #2 and it took me until #4 to overtake then deliberately took a different route to #5 and lost him completely.
#1 Slight search as was mentally 'warming up' to return to bush.
#2 No issues.
#3 Slight search with Tim Tew.
#4 Bright shining new flag gave this ones position away!
#5 From #4 to #5 I went up along the top of cliffline so could see this easily from above.
#6 No issues.
#7 No issues.
#8 Got to this one after passing control 176 out in the open (which later turned out to be on the Moderate Long course) and found what I thought was the correct boulders. Looked around briefly as said I better go up to the road to relocate and then took about 2 steps and saw the control a few metres away.
#9 No issues. Nicolle Haigh just behind me.
#10 No issues. Chasing Nicole Haigh.
#11 No issues. Chasing Nicole Haigh.
#12 Slight search before being lead to it by another competitor.
#13 Elected to go up to the road and approach from west. Found the car wreck control first (which later turned out to be on the Moderate Long course) and then on to the correct one.
#14 Slight search.
#15 No issues.
NOTE :
Also pleasing was that all the pre-work in setting the Bush Results page paid off and I had to do ZERO to get the results up.
ie the pre-established link to NOY1 Results worked immediately the results were uploaded
ie the NOY results table worked
Just have to wait for the normal issues with misspelt names and will have to create the link to Routegadget once the Map ID is assigned.
11 AM
Orienteering - Bush (NOY1 Fairley Dams) 30:19 [3] ** 3.74 km (8:06 / km)
10c shoes: Salomons June 2014
Moderate Long.
10 Controls. Nominal 3.1 km distance.
The Short Hard only had 4 of 12 controls different from the Medium Hard.
The Long Hard only had 5 of 18 controls different from the Medium Hard.
So elected to do an easier course which only duplicated 2 of 10 controls (but 2 of which I had previously found on my prior run).
No issues apart from being tired.
Getting to 8 (car wreck in ditch) which I had visited on earlier course proved to be much easier than the first time.
10 Controls. Nominal 3.1 km distance.
The Short Hard only had 4 of 12 controls different from the Medium Hard.
The Long Hard only had 5 of 18 controls different from the Medium Hard.
So elected to do an easier course which only duplicated 2 of 10 controls (but 2 of which I had previously found on my prior run).
No issues apart from being tired.
Getting to 8 (car wreck in ditch) which I had visited on earlier course proved to be much easier than the first time.
1 PM
Orienteering - Bush (NOY1 Fairley Dams) 1:28:24 [3] * 5.3 km (16:41 / km)
9c shoes: Salomons June 2014
Control collection.
I was dead tired and should have given in and asked for controls closer rather than those the 2nd furthest away.
Carrying 9 controls back, plus 4 empty water containers, proved a challenge.
Also forgot to take compass so at one point resorted to the iPhone.
Heel blisters and right ankle protesting heavily by the end.
But I wasn't the last one back ... which was good.
I was dead tired and should have given in and asked for controls closer rather than those the 2nd furthest away.
Carrying 9 controls back, plus 4 empty water containers, proved a challenge.
Also forgot to take compass so at one point resorted to the iPhone.
Heel blisters and right ankle protesting heavily by the end.
But I wasn't the last one back ... which was good.