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Sunday Oct 4, 2015 #
10 AM
Run race ((orienteering)) 56:15 [4] *** 6.3 km (8:56 / km) +245m 7:29 / km
spiked:18/20c
Australian Relays M35A, with Dion and Jim. Dropped down yesterday (as did Jim) after dropouts elsewhere would have left us with an incomplete 21E team and no 35A team, and because after yesterday I didn't exactly feel in the mood for taking on 21E. As it happened, I didn't feel as bad today as yesterday, although still definitely fading in the last 15 minutes.
There were only two official teams in the race but they were pretty good, the other one being a NSW team of Jock, Fedor Iskhakov and Ecmo. (The ACT team was rendered unofficial after Andy Hogg got called up to 21E to replace Matt Crane, who was injured and cruised round ours - he's still a year away from being eligible). The main question was going to be whether Dion could get closer to Jock than Fedor could get to me.
The answer to this turned out to be no. I went out 12 minutes down on Fedor but just ahead of Matt, who caught me at 2; we were within sight of each other for much of the first two-thirds of the course, and although I knew that he was going a long way short of flat-out it was still nice to have him around. Fairly smooth technically through the first few, a slight wobble at 7 through trying to pinpoint which bit of rock was the mapped cliff, then got through the complex mining section OK. Came a bit unstuck on 13 though - first took what was probably an over-conservative track route round to the north, then missed the control anyway, dropping perhaps a minute. Steady if slow for the remainder, with the lightning-fast 18-19 reminding us of what this area used to be like (most of it was burnt in the early 2000s and the regrowth made it a rather slower, more challenging area). Wasn't able to pull in all the gap on Fedor, and catching four minutes on Ecmo was always going to be too much to ask of Jim.
So ends the week, and for all practical purposes my season (apart from a sprint race in a couple of weeks and maybe something while I'm in Switzerland). I certainly wasn't happy with the way this week went competitively - am planning to take it pretty easy for a couple of weeks and then try to build back into things. Very happy with how the carnival went, though - today was a bit rough around the edges at times but in general almost everything went smoothly, and everyone seemed to enjoy it (the sunshine probably didn't hurt).
There were only two official teams in the race but they were pretty good, the other one being a NSW team of Jock, Fedor Iskhakov and Ecmo. (The ACT team was rendered unofficial after Andy Hogg got called up to 21E to replace Matt Crane, who was injured and cruised round ours - he's still a year away from being eligible). The main question was going to be whether Dion could get closer to Jock than Fedor could get to me.
The answer to this turned out to be no. I went out 12 minutes down on Fedor but just ahead of Matt, who caught me at 2; we were within sight of each other for much of the first two-thirds of the course, and although I knew that he was going a long way short of flat-out it was still nice to have him around. Fairly smooth technically through the first few, a slight wobble at 7 through trying to pinpoint which bit of rock was the mapped cliff, then got through the complex mining section OK. Came a bit unstuck on 13 though - first took what was probably an over-conservative track route round to the north, then missed the control anyway, dropping perhaps a minute. Steady if slow for the remainder, with the lightning-fast 18-19 reminding us of what this area used to be like (most of it was burnt in the early 2000s and the regrowth made it a rather slower, more challenging area). Wasn't able to pull in all the gap on Fedor, and catching four minutes on Ecmo was always going to be too much to ask of Jim.
So ends the week, and for all practical purposes my season (apart from a sprint race in a couple of weeks and maybe something while I'm in Switzerland). I certainly wasn't happy with the way this week went competitively - am planning to take it pretty easy for a couple of weeks and then try to build back into things. Very happy with how the carnival went, though - today was a bit rough around the edges at times but in general almost everything went smoothly, and everyone seemed to enjoy it (the sunshine probably didn't hurt).