Run race ((orienteering)) 1:07:32 [4] **** 6.2 km (10:54 / km) +375m 8:22 / km
spiked:19/27c
My first attempt at Naseby, an area which I'd been looking forward to running on for a long time - since dropping in there (without a map) in 1994 and wondering how on earth people orienteered in this (it's highly intense goldmining, mostly in low-visibility pine). For a while it looked like we weren't going to get to run there because of high fire danger (Christchurch had its second-hottest January day on record, 35.7, on Thursday), but the change came through in the nick of time.
I lost a bit of time on 1 and more on 2, but then settled well through the next section, before a silly mistake on the long 7th leg - Naseby has numerous mountain bike tracks (it must have been incredibly hard at APOC 1984 with none of these and a 1:15000 map), but their shape is heavily generalised and I misread a bend, going off 150 metres too late. Lost about 2 minutes there, then much better through the middle of the course, and surprisingly caught Brent Edwards 6 minutes at 21. That was my undoing - I promptly blew 22 (last control in a felled section) comprehensively, to the tune of about 4 minutes. Wobbly to the finish. Without that mistake it would have been at least a vaguely respectable result, but as it was it was disappointing.