Orienteering race 24:40 [4] *** 3.03 mi (8:08 / mi) +50m 7:45 / mi
ahr:162 max:177 shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS-15
Big Foot Orienteering Club hosted a sprint event at the Wildflower Gardens in St Ives, Sydney. It is the first time for me to run this course. The course covers a mix of road and trails and there is also the opportunity for off track navigation. There was a section with olive green that caught many who ended up DNF and also a few mispunches. I had a mostly clean run and it was difficult to work out if the longer trail sections would be faster than the off trail sections because of the amount of fallen debree in the open forest slowing progress. My major losses were at controls 5 and 6 getting caught in slow scrub and backtracking to use the longer paved route. Temperatures were high... 35c at the start at 9am and it was nice to be finished with the run. Our orienteering team headed to the beach soon after to recouperate. A nice day out orienteering!