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Sunday May 20, 2007 #
Orienteering long (Seldom Seen) 1:26:00 [4] **** 10.0 km (8:36 / km) +400m 7:10 / km
shoes: VJ twisters
Didn't have the same mindset as saturday and oversimplified. Lost about 4 minutes over the first 3 checkpoints. Found my head again after that and ran smoothly until I found Nick, where we progressed to form a train that ran blindly through the next few controls, up until the dodgy mapped bit where the railway ended.
clean from there till the spectator (where I took the reverse finish chute route choice), buzzed through the final loop then ran blindly down the hillside and lost a minute or too running back up the correct hill, where Nick had a slow motion downhill faceplant punching the 3rd last checkpoint.
pretty disappointing run.
made the team though.
clean from there till the spectator (where I took the reverse finish chute route choice), buzzed through the final loop then ran blindly down the hillside and lost a minute or too running back up the correct hill, where Nick had a slow motion downhill faceplant punching the 3rd last checkpoint.
pretty disappointing run.
made the team though.
Saturday May 19, 2007 #
Event: Aust. JWOC Trials
Orienteering race (Gumble Pinnacles) 35:35 [4] **** 6.0 km (5:56 / km) +200m 5:05 / km
shoes: VJ twisters
Felt I had prepared well over the past two weeks for this race thanks to GB.
Went into the race concentrating well, aided by having visited the first two checkpoints two years earlier.
caught Tristan and Geoff Stacey at the 3rd, then made the mistake of blind running through the paddock to the wrong clump of trees and having to 90' to where Simon was punching the control.
Tried to keep up with Simon for the next three, but we eventually took different route choices across the hillside and he powered ahead. Clean through to the spectator.
Then did the usual over cautious slow down in the final loop and punched an extra control (Mortie's). Lost a bit of time. almost made a huge error as I entered the rock much to early and lost about a 1.5min. could have been worse.
was a bit surprised with 2nd place. but I can't complain.
Went into the race concentrating well, aided by having visited the first two checkpoints two years earlier.
caught Tristan and Geoff Stacey at the 3rd, then made the mistake of blind running through the paddock to the wrong clump of trees and having to 90' to where Simon was punching the control.
Tried to keep up with Simon for the next three, but we eventually took different route choices across the hillside and he powered ahead. Clean through to the spectator.
Then did the usual over cautious slow down in the final loop and punched an extra control (Mortie's). Lost a bit of time. almost made a huge error as I entered the rock much to early and lost about a 1.5min. could have been worse.
was a bit surprised with 2nd place. but I can't complain.