Orienteering race 31:38 [4] 5.2 km (6:05 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 TrailRoc 255
Metro race at Warwick. Had Garmin all set up to start before Ricky's briefing, but promptly forgot it. Noel and a few others got a break on me when I went to the right around the stadium to 1 and had to jump an unmapped fence. Had a look at the course on the way to 2 but only counted 18 in the bushland area so thought I had to get them all. Caught Noel between 2 and 3, and recounted so knew I could drop 2 controls. Ron M arrived at 29 and 3 just ahead of me, with Noel just behind. I thought I could out-navigate Ron and out-run Noel, but wasn't sure who else might have picked a good route. Crossed back across the road to get 8 before cleaning up the rest of the Western section, then saw that the obvious 'leave' was 26, with a choice of 4 and 5 for the other. Decided to get 4 and leave 5, Noel and Ron still around at 4 and then 21 but I sneaked in to punch ahead then hot-footed it to 9 where it seemed they had disappeared. Saw Noel again coming out of 30 but knew I had gained enough, and when I saw Ron ducking in to 28 ahead of me I thought he'd got it. However there was no-one at the Finish and Ricky confirmed I'd won. I'm guessing Ron had dropped earlier controls that I didn't know about. Anthea came in a couple of minutes behind me, and Noel another couple after that.
Route was 1-2-29-3-25-8-23-22-24-10-27-4-21-9-6-30-28-7. Distance a bit of an educated guess.
