Orienteering 1:11:48 [4] 6.68 km (10:45 / km) +485m 7:53 / km
ahr:170 max:191
Minor event - Mt Sugarloaf - Hard Long.
Felt quite strong throughout the course which i am pretty happy with. There were a few hills that i was breathing pretty heavy on, especially that last hill up to #23.
Ended up getting confused on the way to #5 because although i hit the track like i wanted to, there was some bare rock and then a track immediately behind it, that then branched off. Looking at it now, it looks like this track that i came across is new and the bare rock is either not mapped, or i was reading it wrong and it is mapped as a strip of rocks. Either way, once i hit the track i thought that i should be heading in the right direction anyway so i trusted myself and my ability to read the vegetation and lo and behold, i hit the control dead on.
Ended up playing leap frog with Nicole.H from about #4 onwards. We would take different routes from time to time, but always catch back up to each other. Probably not a bad thing in terms of learning not to be thrown by other people nor be tempted to follow them. Ended up pulling away from Nicole at the end though as she had trouble with 2 controls near the end.