Orienteering (Malmalling NE) 1:19:46 [3] 6.18 km (12:54 / km) +182m 11:15 / km
ahr:154 max:178 shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3d M+
So managed to miss the rain which was good - went off just before Dave who opted to do his first solo H1.
Was my first time solo in the bush this year (i think) and wanted a good clean race. didnt quite get it but had a decent attempt.
1) was short on distance to start but corrected pretty quickly using granite and cliff.
2) Pretty good - led someone onto it.
3) Spot on it
4) Had read description for wrong control and drifted right on way over. lost time searching here. Andrew martin point me in the right direction as I start to head up that way.
5) Drifted right again and lost a tiny bit of time here but generally pretty good.
6) Again drifting right but found it ok.
7) Spot on
8) pretty much spot on it with a bit of hesitation along the way.
9) Drifted badly right hit the gully with the cliff and rocks 150m west and corrected still drifted right of control from there - but saw flag and decided that must be 10 and went searching south then thought - better check that control... oh it was mine SIGH.
10) didnt take a bearing just ran off in north direction. got within 20m then started doing a weird grid search got in with (an older chap).
11) drifted right not too badly over the rocky knoll to the scattered clearing and down onto the control - gave it away to the older chap who had overshot it trying to go north of the knoll.
12) fast around north side and helped a young guy onto the control whow as lost clearly in the wrong location.
13) spot on
14) hocked around the knoll and onto the point spot on.
15) what a shocking leg. went north and played in bolder clusters eventually older chap caught up and came up further to my left as I was starting to correct. this was frustrating.
16) Old chap threw me punching somehting halfway to 16 which I knew wasnt mine. I then went to overshoot 16 to my left. missing it by 20m.
17) around the front of the boulders and back up to the SFG. which I ended up finding jsut fine.
18) Spot on
19) Enjoyed this leg used the rocks next to the green patch to bounce off adjusted to hit the scattered open then sharp right onto the point.
20) Easy leg onto boulders. Old chap was 30-40m infront of me on finish leg.
Fin) opened up the tank wanted to take the old chap - he heard me 10m from him and lifted his game, so I went to near full sprint and burnt past - eased into the fallen tree just before the road but then misjudged the drop to the road and face planted at speed - bounced twice and stopped at the foot of the punch so just reach up and finished. beat the old chap. He then proceeded to give me tips on how not to get lost and how to orienteering - which was nice but not required considering I had clearly covered more ground than him and knew what I was doing.... I might need to get a club shirt I think wearing the grey shirt throws some of the older ppl. BTW not suggesting I dont need tips or tricks but this was given in a you clearly have no idea what your doing type fashion - because apparently I was completely lost when he came upon me. HA.
Post mortem - beat ricky in my jogging mode so he must have over cooked his recovery run.
My knee is quite sore now particularly when squatting down. I think I will need to ice it as it has swollen a tiny bit around the grazing.
Ripped my brand new pants damn it - only worn them like 3 times. silver lining the left leg on my old pants wasnt ripped up so could substitute them in and looks good as new again - even if its a tad thinned from being used.
Generally happy with the session out. Apologies to andre who came over to chat and we bailed because it started to spit rain and I was cold!
Dave did well and will come back again - so going solo didnt kill him. but he did a lot more distance. if he becomes accurate he might be a contender.
edit - lower back on left sore after fall today too. not good.