Came 2nd, +2:27 to Andrew who's clearly finding some good form at the moment. A real treat to be back in Badja again - first time for me since just after we moved over here in 2011. As well as being some of the most challenging granite terrain in Oz, it's also a beautiful and varied forest to run through. Nice warm sunny day too. My orienteering wasn't all that special though. I set off a bit out of control and took a while to get into the scale - didn't really pick up a single feature for sure on the first leg and dropped over a minute there. Another bad start to a race for me. Got into it a bit after that but it all felt very clunky and I kept finding myself running off at funny angles (lack of proper compass since I broke my main one last weekend didn't help). Got very confused when it got a bit vague on me at #14 and made a bit of a parallel error in the small gullies - another couple of minutes of genuine stood still headscratching in there. Finished off ok. Thought the course could have done with some control picks and a few controls that were more tucked away, but it was still a great challenge and really good fun. Felt mostly fine in the legs but a bit tired and heavy.
