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Sunday Aug 8, 2010 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 45:52 [4] 5.6 km (8:11 / km) +140m 7:17 / km
shoes: Brooks Cascadia 3
OY event at Mt Marjura East. RobW had set a great middle distance type course. Mainly in the pines but the first 6 controls were up in the casurinas. Lots of controls, changes of direction, leg lengths. Not much time to switch off.
My first big mistake was leaving 7 and glancing at the map and seeing '8' as a long leg so did a quick rough plan and headed off. About 1/3 of the way there I looked at my map and wondered why there was a control circle back behind me. A closer look showed that it was number 8 and the '8' I had seen was actually '18' - I just didn't see the '1'. A quick back track to 8, and then on again probably lost me about 2 minutes, but could have been a lot worse.
A couple of indecisions about whether to cut through the pines which can be quite slow in parts, or run around. The only other bad control was the last where I went a bit too far to the right by not reading the detail carefully.
My first big mistake was leaving 7 and glancing at the map and seeing '8' as a long leg so did a quick rough plan and headed off. About 1/3 of the way there I looked at my map and wondered why there was a control circle back behind me. A closer look showed that it was number 8 and the '8' I had seen was actually '18' - I just didn't see the '1'. A quick back track to 8, and then on again probably lost me about 2 minutes, but could have been a lot worse.
A couple of indecisions about whether to cut through the pines which can be quite slow in parts, or run around. The only other bad control was the last where I went a bit too far to the right by not reading the detail carefully.
Running warm up/down 35:00 [3]
shoes: Brooks Cascadia 3
A nice warm up going up to the start. Thought I should do a bit more running today so went out along the fire trails for about 25 minutes after the race. It is really quite cold in the shade, even in the middle of the day.