O-Shea 2-Day : Pairs Score
I didnt know / read in advance whether this one was street or bush, so I brought shoes to cover either. I had a dilemma when when the organisers told me it was the course was both.
We guessed in advance that a street vs bush split might also be a good way to divide the controls between us (only the final control needed to be punched by both), so I kept the road shoes on. Our planned split was verified in an instant once we got to look at the map: Me collecting all street controls and Rob all bush controls.
I ran a fairly clean race again, with the only boo-boos being a) small wobble heading into nr 13 as the private / public boundary was not clear on the ground, and b) taking a while to spot the second laneway on the way from 3 to 4. The map today was much better than last night, but I still think the private housing land (mapped with thin vertical hatch lines) should be shown as 'Olive' (as per IOF mapping)
I expected Rob to be back to final control before me, but I had to wait for him (but only about 2 mins). We were the first team across the line (beat first short course pair too), and in the end overall Long Pairs Winners.
GPX based time a bit over real time since I forgot to stop watch a finish line.
A bit weird to know my name will be going on a trophy alongside elites stretching back to the late 80's.
I'm now looking forward to (hopefully) seeing the team scores / splits published, so I can decipher the margins involved etc.
The event probably is a tad biased towards 20-40 year old male teams, and maybe could do with some handicapping or time adjustments / conversions to take account of gender and age of team members.
Edit: Splits here -
http://www.ccorienteering.org/results/OShea2015/sc...