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Saturday Aug 15, 2015 #
12 PM
Run race ((orienteering)) 41:17 [4] *** 5.8 km (7:07 / km) +90m 6:36 / km
spiked:28/30c
One of the ways I deal with jet lag is to be as active as I can on the first day in the name of keeping myself awake until a reasonable hour. Even by usual standards I surpassed myself in this department yesterday, though - first a State Series event at Bendigo (spending only a couple of hours at home after a 5.30am arrival), then a quiz night in the evening. I took the train to the former, partly because I could (the assembly area was only 500m from Kangaroo Flat station) and partly because I didn't trust myself to drive, not having teed up a lift beforehand.
The area was an interesting one - basically one long erosion gully in the suburban fringe of Bendigo, a 3km by 300m map, mapped at 1:5000. Bendigo is riddled with patches like this, most of them not as long (it would be well-suited to a multi-sprint day), and it made for good, if different, orienteering. Certainly wouldn't have contemplated using an area like this for anything 20 years ago.
There were a lot of things about this event which were a bit of a culture shock coming back from Europe - hard ground, blue features which don't contain water, lack of marshes, doing under 9 minutes/km - but one thing which was familiar was the 2k to the start. This reinforced that I wasn't going to be running fast today, but as it happened a technical course suited me. Took a bit of time to get into the map scale and what was/wasn't mapped and wobbled a bit at 2, but technically good and accurate thereafter, most notably through a section from 4-8 when I was in the process of going through Martin. Took a moment to find where the new maps were at the map change at 11, then again reasonably smooth through the second sector. Was catching ground on Lanita (who started four minutes ahead) from 20 onwards, but both of us lost time at 24, which I think had some issues with the mapping (it's telling that six of the top ten lost time here), and she ran away from me on the easy final section.
Reasonably satisfied with this in the circumstances, despite being a couple of minutes down on running speed - although Patrick put all of us into perspective with a 32 (having already run a 3000 and 1500 earlier in the morning). Fell asleep between about 3.45 and 4.15 on the way home, at the time when my football team was doing likewise....
The area was an interesting one - basically one long erosion gully in the suburban fringe of Bendigo, a 3km by 300m map, mapped at 1:5000. Bendigo is riddled with patches like this, most of them not as long (it would be well-suited to a multi-sprint day), and it made for good, if different, orienteering. Certainly wouldn't have contemplated using an area like this for anything 20 years ago.
There were a lot of things about this event which were a bit of a culture shock coming back from Europe - hard ground, blue features which don't contain water, lack of marshes, doing under 9 minutes/km - but one thing which was familiar was the 2k to the start. This reinforced that I wasn't going to be running fast today, but as it happened a technical course suited me. Took a bit of time to get into the map scale and what was/wasn't mapped and wobbled a bit at 2, but technically good and accurate thereafter, most notably through a section from 4-8 when I was in the process of going through Martin. Took a moment to find where the new maps were at the map change at 11, then again reasonably smooth through the second sector. Was catching ground on Lanita (who started four minutes ahead) from 20 onwards, but both of us lost time at 24, which I think had some issues with the mapping (it's telling that six of the top ten lost time here), and she ran away from me on the easy final section.
Reasonably satisfied with this in the circumstances, despite being a couple of minutes down on running speed - although Patrick put all of us into perspective with a 32 (having already run a 3000 and 1500 earlier in the morning). Fell asleep between about 3.45 and 4.15 on the way home, at the time when my football team was doing likewise....