Orienteering race 43:47 [5] **** 6.7 km (6:32 / km) +110m 6:02 / km
ahr:165 max:178 shoes: Inov8 X-Claw 275
ACT League event at Orroral Tracking Station. Course had a good mix of the open valley floor and the scungy rocky sides, although I didn't feel so positive all the time I was bashing through nasty green (Note to self: buy protective glasses). Anyway ran okay in the open stuff but made a string of errors in the green. 30s at #11, 45s at #12, and 2.15 at #15, which was a really big boulder hiding very successfully in some thick green. Need to work on focus and precision for the such technical and low visibility orienteering. Finished 2s behind Rob, who also had a shocker; and Craney smashed everyone - there was a 6min gap back to Doyley.
Achilles was sore throughout and that makes me a bit tentative in rough stuff and in pushing hard but legs felt strong otherwise. Relatively happy with my time from a fitness perspective. The recent block of running I did obviously made some difference.