Christmas 5 Days
Day 2 Barambogie North, Chiltern, VIC
I had a much better run today. My only problem came at control 8. It looked to be the most challenging control on the course, so I took care to navigate carefully to the control site. However, the control flag was not there. The feature looked exactly as it was mapped, so I suspected something was wrong with the placement. There were a few other elites wandering around and we concluded that it was misplaced. I seached all of the similar features in the circle for 4 or 5 minutes, but I could not find it. I felt that it was almost certain that a no-race would be declared so I decided to wait at the correct site and tell other runners to go on so that their runs would not be impacted. After a few minutes, Lachlan Hallett came through and mentioned that the flag was placed 120m SE and 6 contours too high. I ran back to get the control and reposition it to the correct location, so at least the 2nd half of the field could have an uninterrupted run. On my way back, a few fast runners came through and tried to punch the moving control!
I then continued my course and had a good finish.
I suspect that control 9 was also placed on the boulder cluster instead of the southern boulder, but the flag was very obvious and no one would have lost any time here.
I probably lost around 12 minutes at number 8, so I should have had a time of around 53 minutes.