Orienteering 1:14:06 [5] 10.94 km (6:46 / km) +238m 6:06 / km
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 300 Red/Blue
M35A at Warranine Long Distance State Champs.
First starter. Nice and straight to the rocks at 1 but then didn't pick the right piece of rock at all. Fluffed around for a minute or so, fully expecting to see Tom by the time I found the right boondie. Clean enough into 2 and 3 although slowly through the green crap.
After that it really opened up and I think I was fairly clean for all of it. Craig zoomed past around 7 and then I was also trailing Rachel most of the way to 8. We pretty much hit 8 at the same time, both huffing and puffing after the long leg.
I think all of my decisions after that were good and it would seem that I eventually managed to claw my way into the lead. It's got to be the strangest set of splits I've seen - everyone of the six of us was in the lead at some stage and barely seconds separating us at the end. Glad I kept running!