Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

QB3 (the NZ version), first day on the World Cup middle map from 2013. Not much confidence on 1 (the flat bit on the map - often a good feature in this terrain - didn't seem to have much of a counterpart in the terrain), but hit it more or less OK. Then ran into trouble on the open dunes at 4 and 5 - a bit wide on 4 (maybe 45 seconds-1 minute) and a bigger one on 5, staying too close to the coast and misreading the elongated flat depressions, probably another 2 minutes there. Got a bit easier from there and my navigation improved accordingly, except for 14, where I couldn't quite make sense of which gullies were/weren't mapped in the circle, perhaps 1.5 minutes there? Finished off reasonably well, helped by getting a bit of a pull from Brodie.

The result was a bit of a shock. I dropped 4-5 minutes over the course, but even without that, I still would have been last (apart from the mispunches) and about 5 minutes further back than I would expect in a field of this strength. Nick Hann did 31. Shows that experience in the terrain counts for a bit.