Run race ((orienteering)) 1:18:23 [4] *** 10.7 km (7:20 / km) +380m 6:13 / km
spiked:14/18c
Another very mediocre run at the end of a mediocre post-carnival week, at Macedon - an area for which the good window of opportunity to run on it has probably been missed (it was quite open around 2008-09 but has thickened up again; in particular pretty well all of the gullies were unpleasant, whether mapped as such or not).
Slightly dodgy route on 1 but then had a big mistake early as I did last week, losing about 4 minutes on 4, the first control in low-visibility pines - hadn't quite got the feel of which logpiles were mapped and which ones weren't, got confused by an unmapped logpile and thus convinced myself I was a gully further on than I actually was. Didn't lose much time to mistakes after that, apart from a very annoying 30-seconder missing the entrance to the railway line tunnel, but always felt as if I was plodding, even when it opened up into more mature pines (the splits suggest that I wasn't going that fast through this section anyway). Didn't have much left for the last climb, either.
Others did even worse so I was actually in front when I left, although if Bryan and Evan (both late starters) don't take at least 10 minutes out of this time they've had bad runs.