Orienteering race (Boksburg Stadium) 20:01 [3] *** 3.7 km (5:25 / km)
ahr:163 spiked:14/16c shoes: Inov-8 X-Talon 212 Orange
Urban Series event, 1:6'000 with 5m contours.
Started as fast as possible and nailed all the early, easy controls across the fields. Tried to keep the pace up after #4 when we were in the longer grass legs. Took right hand route choice to #7. Slightly too much of a banana bend to #8 meant I probably lost 5s there but was led in by Glen C. Saw that #11 would be tricky and wasn't surprised that the feature was slightly further east than on the map, limiting my time loss as I changed direction to compensate. Still about 15s slower than the fastest splits, where some people would have been led into the control by other competitors. From then on no more problems and tried to keep the speed high across the final fields to the finish. Still have a bad finish split however....
Finished 1st with about 18s over Brad and 40s over Alex. Thrilled with the result given the amount of dead running in the course, so maybe I'm getting some speed back.