Orienteering race (SA Champs Middle) 39:23 [5] ***** 3.96 km (9:57 / km) +165m 8:14 / km
spiked:16/21c shoes: Salomon 3D Pro grey #8
1430 - Hedianga. 1:5'000. 5m contours. Mapped by Ulf Hedlund and Pieter Mulder. New map of S.A.'s most notoriously technical area. Conditions were also very hot. Started off by messing up #1, but then settled down for a while. I had a big parallel error at #10 (4 mins), but was still confident that I could do well, due to the extreme technicality of the area. From here on I had no more mistakes, which gave me a good lead in the end. Exciting area, good mapping and planning. Just a bit warm. Won by about 7 mins with Jeremy Green 2nd and Paul Wimberley 3rd.
