Orienteering race 1:14:33 [4] 11.25 km (6:38 / km)
shoes: Oroc's
NZ QB3 Day 1 - Whirokino
A day of equipment issues. Noticed at control 6 that my SI wasn't actually punching on the units. Up until then had been hearing the SI air beep as I punched (SI air was supposed to be off on the units) but not actually looking, whereas at 6 I didn't flow well so actually saw it not working. Figured I should actually get a result as it was Bushrangers so returned to the start to try clear/check/SI off again from which point it seemed to work fine. Oh well. Re-ran the first loop and then continued on my way. Also annoyingly my lace tape lasted about 5 minutes so was constantly retying laces.
Actually had quite a solid run from that point on, moving reasonably ok despite the junky forest. Had a couple of small time losses when we came back into the green stripe from 20-22 from getting pushed around but other than that quite clean.
Looking at it on gps it was around 11min lost for my SI problem (difference in my time between the first and second times I was at #6) so would have been competitive with the NZ guys.