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Sunday Oct 5, 2014 #
11 AM
Run race ((orienteering)) 59:58 [4] *** 7.4 km (8:06 / km) +295m 6:45 / km
spiked:17/21c
Australian Relays. There was a certain amount of turbulence in the Victorian M21E teams before the start - first Bryan was out, which meant David was promoted to the first team and I filled his gap in the second team, then Ben Goonan was also out which meant that we would end up with an incomplete team (which I thought was the one that started with Simon Rouse, with Jim moving up into the second team).
I ran second leg. Toph was a long way down on the pace and the extent of my ambitions was to get in inside the mass start (needing 55 minutes when the best first legs were 43). It turned out to be a decent run physically - certainly much better than I was expecting given my condition in the last 20 minutes yesterday - but too scrappy to be called a good one, losing 2 minutes at 6 and probably a minute more across three others. Never saw anyone else on my course (not surprising given the big gaps on either side of me). Turned out Jim had gone out on his original number (both the second and third team were in the mass start) so it was our team that was left stranded, though even with Jim I think we would have been 9th. Good to see the first team win, though (and for Victoria to pick up a completely unexpected win in the Xanthorrhoea Trophy, and a more expected win in the women's National League).
There will be a lot of long trips home tonight but mine is longer than most - I'm embarking on the next leg of my trip, to New York via Qatar (27 1/2 hours worth). Perth to New York, as I may have mentioned before, introduces some interesting route choice challenges - it's a fairly similar distance to do it via the Middle East, Southeast Asia or the east coast of Australia (though I think the first is the only one-stop option).
I ran second leg. Toph was a long way down on the pace and the extent of my ambitions was to get in inside the mass start (needing 55 minutes when the best first legs were 43). It turned out to be a decent run physically - certainly much better than I was expecting given my condition in the last 20 minutes yesterday - but too scrappy to be called a good one, losing 2 minutes at 6 and probably a minute more across three others. Never saw anyone else on my course (not surprising given the big gaps on either side of me). Turned out Jim had gone out on his original number (both the second and third team were in the mass start) so it was our team that was left stranded, though even with Jim I think we would have been 9th. Good to see the first team win, though (and for Victoria to pick up a completely unexpected win in the Xanthorrhoea Trophy, and a more expected win in the women's National League).
There will be a lot of long trips home tonight but mine is longer than most - I'm embarking on the next leg of my trip, to New York via Qatar (27 1/2 hours worth). Perth to New York, as I may have mentioned before, introduces some interesting route choice challenges - it's a fairly similar distance to do it via the Middle East, Southeast Asia or the east coast of Australia (though I think the first is the only one-stop option).
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