Orienteering 17:54 [3] 2.75 km (6:31 / km)
shoes: Kayano 26
Super fun sprint course and head-head with Nat. Highly serious competition! She got ahead of me I the first maze/loops - I found that hard to read (new glasses required), and I was chasing through the line section to 13. From there, I misread 15 as 14 so was heading to the wrong control in the set of loops... sorted that out and it worked out OK somehow, maybe I found the best drain crossing, as ended up ahead by the end of the loops. I hear we were close there but really had no idea. Next up I went to the underpass road crossing which involved running down the side of a drain. Oops! Slipped on the damp, slimy concrete slope. That put Nat off following me so she wasted a bit of time working out what to do, but ultimately had to follow cautiously. I then had trouble convincing myself to climb back up out of the drain. Luckily I found a convenient ladder! Then onto the second maze. This one I was fine (because I knew to flip the map!) and Nat could not read... I didn't really see her here as was just concentrating. Then a few longer legs to the finish. She must have been storming as finished right behind me. And after all that I MP'd. Got 8 instead of 5 in the first loops/maze and did not realise until I checked the GPS trace...
