Teering race (Easter) 57:46**** 6.73 km (8:35 / km) +229m7:20 / km ahr:145 max:165 shoes: Inov8 XTalon 212
Hill Park Dale, Easter Day 2, M60, 2nd. Played safe after major stuff ups last times I ran here (2006, 2008). Got through Ok, with minor hesitations/errors at 3,7, 12 and 14. One major issue, wrong track at 9, but saved it with double checking and lost only about 1 minute. Running OK and nothing in the achilles. More analysis later.
Teering race (Easter) 15:29***** 2.38 km (6:30 / km) +31m6:07 / km ahr:149 max:167 spiked:15/25c shoes: ASICS Kayano 23
Scotch College Easter Day 1, M60, 1st. Really tough technical sprint race. Started 1 minute behind Jeff D (the Oceania Sprint M60 Champ) and after a glitch at 2 getting trapped in a dead end, reeled him in coming in to 9. Got past on the way to 14 and promptly turned down another dead end (-15 seconds). Realised quickly and went past Jeff again on the way to 15. No sooner than I got in front again I headed past our 16 to a wrong control - read the code and turned back (-15 seconds). I thought Jeff had punched our one behind me, and he thought I was taking a weird route to 17.... and punched the wrong control. That was basically the last I saw of him - couldn't get back in touch before the finish, so was only 45 seconds faster.