orienteering race (Goldfields 3 Wattle Gully) 1:09:32 [3] 5.6 km (12:25 / km) +260m 10:05 / km
shoes: Inov8 OROC 270 blue/orange
Public race after spectating the schools' relays; although the course configuration didn't really allow for a spectator control, Aislinn had done a good job of getting people out from the oval under the railway line via the creek culvert and then back from the forest through the Adelaide Road underpass, which I had predicted. So it was fun to do the same thing after the kids had run, even though I was not exactly on one of the relay courses. Took it fairly easy, often stopped to let faster people past me, enjoyed the wildflowers and the wallabies, walked up the big hills and through all of the prickly-gorse section north of the line. Navigationally I am still questioning some of my track vs cross-country route choices but I didn't lose too much time in the control circles, except when I didn't understand that 13 was going to be right inside the quarry. Still wondering how I managed to be away from 'home' for 5 hours when the arena in Chewton was only 10 mins' walk from our accommodation!
