Orienteering race 1:24:00 [5] *** 11.5 km (7:18 / km) +440m 6:08 / km
ahr:167 max:178 spiked:20/24c shoes: Inov-8 talon212
OY at Cotton's paddock. The first 50 mins were good - the course covered the map pretty well to get 11km. it started with a big lap around the outside, then finished up in the tricky erosion in the middle, which had allegedly been fixed. at 14, before the start of this part I was 6 mins behind the leader. by 17 I was 16 mins behind. the first of my epic mistakes started as my fault - dropped down to early and ended up in the wrong creek, but then the map in that area was appallingly mapped (ie. not mapped), and it too a while to figure out what was going on. I crossed another creek system on the way out, which also wasn't mapped very well, and by the time I got to the control I had absolutely no confidence that the map was correct at all. 17 was another relocation fail, and turned the wrong direction to start with. after those mistakes I was a bit more hesitant, but tried to keep running hard to the end.
in hindsight - a gel at the first drinks control probably would have done me a lot of good, and possibly held off a major case of the stupids.
feet were pretty sore at the end - got some good blisters, and either taping or laces were a bit tight and feet feel a bit bruised now.