Run race ((orienteering)) 57:53 [4] *** 5.9 km (9:49 / km) +225m 8:14 / km
spiked:21/23c
Victorian Middle Championships at Creswick. One disastrous control which turned this into a poor result - came into the general vicinity of 5, didn't see the control, couldn't quite make sense of the features around, bobbled around for a bit, found 6, went in backwards from 6, pulled up short, went back to 6, and finally found it on the third attempt, probably about 5 minutes to the poorer. (Perhaps unsurprisingly, given that it was the third time I'd been there, 6 was one of my faster splits).
The pity was that apart from this it was a fairly reasonable run; a bit hesitant on 12 but fine on everything else. Also running better than I have at any time in the last two or three weeks, which at least gives me some encouragement for tomorrow if I can put things together there. Without 5, I would have been in the (large) bunch at 51-52 minutes which is a result I would have been happy with.
A horrible day for the Nuggets (surprising on home ground) - three of the women mispunched and Tash walked because of flu (and wasn't a scoring runner anyway because she wasn't in team uniform), leaving them to get 2 points while Queensland got 9, and the men were well off the pace too.