Orienteering race 1:02:35 [4] 9.2 km (6:48 / km) +225m 6:04 / km
state event at Mundoolan. Clare and I talked each other into going to the event yesterday, and quite glad I did cos it was pretty nice running, and a good course set by gary flynn. The lantana has grown a lot on the map, not so much that its hard to get through, but it reduces visibility a lot, and there were a few controls where running along the slope at the right height should have been enough to see the control, but lantana thickets reduced vis and made it tricky. problem was it was a bit random, and attackpoints were pretty far away from anything. got about 2/3 of the way round at about 40mins, and decided that I should be able to get in under 60, but some wobbles on a couple of controls near the end (including being way too low on the second last) caused a bit of a blowout in time. Good to get a hard run in terrain in, and will need to do some more O in the next few weeks, cos technique (especially compass) is a bit rusty.