Orienteering race 1:25:57 [5] 10.97 km (7:50 / km) +440m 6:32 / km
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon 212
Oceania Long Distance Champs. Pissing with rain the whole time we were there. Had a good plan and started steady concentrating on getting used to the map and the 1:15,000 scale. Spiked 1 but was a bit lucky on 2. clean but careful through 3-4 and then put some pace on for the long leg to 5. good for 6 and 7 but started loosing concentration a bit, no plan on 8 which was a hard leg and lost maybe 2 mins. hesitated and wasn't confident at 9 an lost more time. took my lepin planned my long leg and refocused on the short leg to 10. nailed the long leg and after a mistake at 12 nailed the last loop. some definite mistakes in there but a good run and 8th place in very strong M20E grade.