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Monday Jun 14, 2010 #
10 AM
Run race ((orienteering)) 1:02:38 [4] *** 9.3 km (6:44 / km) +290m 5:50 / km
spiked:16/24c
Final day of the Flinders weekend, the SA so-called Middle Distance Championships at Rawnsley Park. This started a little erratically, not quite nailing controls at 1 and 4 but not losing a lot of time. Things kept taking a long time to come up, and I looked at my watch at the drinks control: 24 minutes and still short of halfway. Something was obviously wrong: either the map was 1:15000 or the course had been measured with the wrong scale. I suggested the former and more or less confirmed it a few controls later when I looked at the distance between the north lines.
The race rather fell apart after that, in the thicker terrain of the second half of the course. Struggled with the low visibility (not always reflected with the green on the map) and to adjust mentally to the new scale; lost 90 seconds apiece on 14 and 19 and generally lost confidence in my navigation. Probably about 4-5 minutes slower than I should have been. The 50% extra length didn't concern me too much, but a lot of people will have been out for a long time.
All in all, not performing quite as well as I would like to have done, but an enjoyable weekend all the same (which is why I came).
The race rather fell apart after that, in the thicker terrain of the second half of the course. Struggled with the low visibility (not always reflected with the green on the map) and to adjust mentally to the new scale; lost 90 seconds apiece on 14 and 19 and generally lost confidence in my navigation. Probably about 4-5 minutes slower than I should have been. The 50% extra length didn't concern me too much, but a lot of people will have been out for a long time.
All in all, not performing quite as well as I would like to have done, but an enjoyable weekend all the same (which is why I came).