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Yesterday's training worked out as expected. Arrived home at 1.00am which was a bit late to go for a run. All the driving seems to have created back problems. At least I can read Blair's log and feel that someone else is having a worse time. I'm trying to imagine country that leaves Blair travelling at 10 minutes a kilometre. Funny that the terrain doesn't look too bad on the map. Not a lot of green, lots of yellow bits scattered around, A grid of gullies. Green must mean very green. Its a long way from bendigo, for which we can all be thankful.
Real Orienteering race (Spring Gully) 48:29 [4] *** 7.9 km (6:08 / km) +170m 5:32 / km
ahr:148 max:169 spiked:18/20c shoes: La di da's
Was secretly looking forward to a gentle run. Discovered the format was a mass start loop race. As luck would have it, I had the same loops as Nigel, so the run became a bit of a race. Unfortunately for Nigel, after leading me most of the first half of the first loop, he made a navigational blooper and I didn't see him after that. But Craig made a similar bloop in the second loop, allowing me to catch him after his naturally superior speed was becoming eclipsed by his inevitable lack of fitness from limited training. The cancelling effect was sufficient for me to lead him into two controls and then watch him slowly increase his lead, to 25 seconds by the end. The race meant I had the hard training I probably needed, rather than the gentle wander I was anticipating. That average heart rate is pretty high for me. I was glad of the effort after it was over, and pleased at a relatively accurate navigational performance. Two minor errors cost maybe 1 minuet in total.