9 AM
Running warm up/down 17:22 [3] 2.93 km (5:56 / km) +26m 5:41 / km
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 280
Warm up, ran West for about 1km and back again then up to the start and a couple of short harder efforts. Feeling good by the end.
Orienteering race 31:08 [5] 4.9 km (6:21 / km) +135m 5:35 / km
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 280
WA middle champs at Calophylla.
Feeling a bit nervous but ready to go and went to punch the start but no beep. Someone else tried, same thing. Noel then came in and tried and it worked for him. I tried again, still nothing. Noel had a new flashing stick so we thought maybe that was why his worked. There was a call to delay the start for 15 minutes while they found a new start brick but then someone else came in (enter on the day I think) and punched with the same card type as me. I then realised something else must be wrong and had a look at the check station we punched when collecting control descriptions and found it was programmed as control number 102 instead of check. Took that out of the sequence, cleared and checked again and everything worked fine. Start clock was reset to 9:27 and we began again except this time not feeling anywhere near as ready to race.
First leg was short and control looked easy on paper but the creek junction below the control didn't look quite how I expected so I was just a little hesitant. Next few were easy but all uphill and I felt awful after the delay at the start. Had a bit of downhill after 4 and felt better after that. No problems at all navigationally, always felt in control and as good as I could expect physically. I enjoyed the run and finished just under 5 minutes ahead of tRicky. Hard to know how I would have gone against stronger opposition but I was pretty happy with my own performance.
Running warm up/down 7:05 [2] 1.08 km (6:33 / km) +13m 6:11 / km
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 280
Little warm down jog down to Ridley Rd and back. Tripped over a 10cm high log which I had seen, just didn't realise I was dragging my feet quite that much.