Orienteering - Rogaine (Kincumber) 2:37:20 [5] 21.04 km (7:29 / km)
shoes: Salomons June 2014
Kincumber Minigaine.
3 hours.
My 5th (?) Rogaine. All others have been 6 hour events.
First ever one done without a partner so no-one to slow me down (effectively no one to blame).
Being solo risked pushing too hard early but ultimately paced myself well.
Much preferred the 1:10000 scale map compared to normal 1:25000 Rogaine maps.
Seemed to "get to controls" very quickly.
Overjoyed with distance covered and time.
PERSONAL BEST EVER!!
Basically completed my first ever solo half marathon.
I may just have to enter a real one sometime now.
And it included 120 metre hill climb from 39 to 20, and then corresponding descent back down again.
Control visibility / ease of finding varied totally randomly.
Some out in the open ... others hard to find.
Control #30 being about 200 m east on totally the wrong track was ridiculous. Most people found this by pure luck. In fact one person I talked to out on the course found it and then got totally confused since it was in such the wrong location.
Wildly misjudged how far I could travel today.
By turning around at #61 to #55 effectively wrote off the bottom half of the map and "boxed myself in" later running out of options.
Got to Control #20 in first hour (8 km) for 760 points.
So got 42% of my total score in the first hour.
Having visited Kincumber back in February (before the Rogaine location was announced) was a big advantage as I had walked the tracks before. In fact #67 was a spur I had visited previously, and seen the TAPE, and thought ... people must do Orienteering events out here!
I expected to get to #43 at after almost 3 hrs and got there with an hour to spare.
So added in #48-#31-#60-#41 which I had planned but expected to have to drop.
Ran past the start again at 2 hrs 20 minutes so still had time to fill.
So added in #35-#58-#10.
After that no choice but to come back early.
There was no way I was going to get out to #62-#27-#33.
Kym Van Netten and I played tag #52-#42-#57-#80-#25-#32-#53 but her route started with #10-#35-#58-#63 so she had a much more efficient option to south and picked up #62-#27-#33 as per of her final loop.
Those 3 controls made up the 110 point difference between us.
Considering Kym generally a lot faster than me, and that I could match her pace #52 through to #53 that also was a good thing for me today.
Number, Control, Points, Total
01, 37, 30, 30
02, 54, 50, 80
03, 61, 60, 140
04, 55, 50, 190
05, 44, 40, 230
06, 47, 40, 270
07, 63, 60, 330
08, 23, 20, 350
09, 34, 30, 380
10, 90, 90, 470
11, 81, 80, 550, 30 minutes
12, 66, 60, 610
13, 12, 10, 620
14, 36, 30, 650
15, 39, 30, 680
16, 67, 60, 740
17, 20, 20, 760, 1 hour
18, 73, 70, 830
19, 40, 40, 870
20, 30, 30, 900
21, 51, 50, 950
22, 65, 60, 1010
23, 91, 90, 1100
24, 52, 50, 1150
25, 42, 40, 1190
26, 57, 50, 1240
27, 80, 80, 1320
28, 25, 20, 1340
29, 32, 30, 1370
30, 53, 50, 1420
31, 68, 60, 1480
32, 21, 20, 1500
33, 43, 40, 1540, 2 hours
34, 11, 10, 1550
35, 48, 40, 1590
36, 31, 30, 1620
37, 60, 60, 1680
38, 41, 40, 1720
39, 35, 30, 1750
40, 58, 50, 1800
41, 10, 10, 1810
Finish
The splits tell the story.
First 6 km on streets so faster.
Then 7 km to 12 km through bush so up hill and then down hill again.
Then 13 km onward back through streets so back faster again.
After about 18 km started 'hitting the wall' and legs really starting to complain.
km, Split, Total, Control
01, 05:23, 0:05:23,
02, 06:08, 0:11:31,
03, 05:55, 0:17:26,
04, 06:48, 0:24:14,
05, 06:09, 0:30:23, #81
06, 07:03, 0:37:26,
07, 10:25, 0:47:51, Up hill!
08, 09:59, 0:57:50, #20
09, 09:16, 1:07:06,
10, 09:31, 1:16:37,
11, 08:06, 1:24:43,
12, 08:23, 1:33:06,
13, 06:25, 1:39:31,
14, 06:10, 1:45:41,
15, 06:43, 1:52:24,
16, 07:09, 1:59:33, #43
17, 07:14, 2:06:47,
18, 07:13, 2:14:00,
19, 07:01, 2:21:01,
20, 06:56, 2:27:57,
21, 08:24, 2:36:21, Finish
Ankle held up well.
Wore ankle braces which proved essential running downhill on tracks.
Huge blisters down back of both ankles, and leech bites bleeding on left foot.
Any running for rest of week going to take layers of band aids or similar to protect back of heels.