Orienteering race 58:36 [4] 8.8 km (6:40 / km)
shoes: Asics Gel Pursue 2
Metro Score event at Swanbourne. Thought I should try for 7-8 30 pointers as getting all 10 looked out of the question. With 5 on each half of the map I decided to go East first as there were no hills for the first 3-4kms. Took the road from 106 to 110, so immediately added 250m to my target distance! From 130 went uphill to the Southern crossing, by which time I realsied I'd only be able to get two of the 30 pointers in the Western half. Probably should have left 130 out and got 121, which would also have taken me past another 10 and 20 (105 and 111). Near the Northern crossing I knew it would be tight so didn't bother with 107, but saw Juffy and his beast on the way back from it, and raced them to the finish via 115 and 103. Gained 1 bonus point with a minute and half to spare. Don't know about Juffy, but I was pretty sure he'd started a couple of minutes before me.
106-110-128-122-109-124-125-112-117-130-116-102-119-127-123-113-104-115-103.
Longest I've run in quite a while.