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Sunday Sep 27, 2009 #
Run race ((orienteering)) 1:38:45 [4] *** 15.1 km (6:32 / km) +700m 5:19 / km
spiked:21/21c
A bit reversed from yesterday - a run which felt like it was a good one, very good at times, but got a worse placing than I thought it was going to. I thought it was a top-six run but it only got 10th, thanks to the rest of the field refusing to crumble the way they usually do in long, physical races. It's a good sign for Australian orienteering even if it was bad for my result.
The course was hilly with a lot of small route choice but not much in the way of epic route choice - there was no 'how on earth do I do this' leg - and quite technically easy. This made it in essence a long hilly running race. It felt solid from the beginning, and better later on, with a fair bit of strength up the hills, even later on (including the big climb into 19 at the end).
The knee is just about right but I did myself another injury in the closing stages - ran into a fence wire and appear to have strained something in my quad from the suddenness of the stop. It hurt enough to suggest that it might have been a problem had it happened 20 minutes from home rather than two.
It was another moist day (although rainfall totals were small) and we cut up the access road pretty badly. Most of it was thanks to some ill-timed roadworks but I still expect we'll attract some local ire (even if we helped the local CFA raise a couple of grand).
The course was hilly with a lot of small route choice but not much in the way of epic route choice - there was no 'how on earth do I do this' leg - and quite technically easy. This made it in essence a long hilly running race. It felt solid from the beginning, and better later on, with a fair bit of strength up the hills, even later on (including the big climb into 19 at the end).
The knee is just about right but I did myself another injury in the closing stages - ran into a fence wire and appear to have strained something in my quad from the suddenness of the stop. It hurt enough to suggest that it might have been a problem had it happened 20 minutes from home rather than two.
It was another moist day (although rainfall totals were small) and we cut up the access road pretty badly. Most of it was thanks to some ill-timed roadworks but I still expect we'll attract some local ire (even if we helped the local CFA raise a couple of grand).