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Saturday Sep 27, 2014 #
Event: Karrak Karnival - Oz Champs
11 AM
Orienteering race 50:34 [3] 6.5 km (7:47 / km) +168m 6:53 / km
shoes: VJ Bold 2013
Couldn't wait to run on Spice Brook! Driving in, the flowers lived up to expectation and they continued to be spectacular through the run - best of the carnival. The weather was shocking with rain all day, pity the organisers and helpers as it really was a worst-nightmare situation there.
Started 2 min after Jenny, was a bit wayward going to 1, lucky the track saved me. Sloppy direction going to 2 but got it fine and had to turn the control on, thought that was a bit weird. The same happened at 3 and I worked out I must now be in front. I could feel Jenny mowing me down on the long uphill drag to 4 and sure enough saw her head pop around the corner just as I punched - a pity as I could have made some time there with the tricky WA control placement - virtually in a convenient blackboy. We leap frogged each other for 5 and 6 then took different routes to 7, arriving at the same time. Stuck together going to 8 but she was edging ahead. She got to the circle first and has heading away but I called her back, I knew it had to be the right place and again my local knowledge paid off as the control placement was another WA special. She got a gap on the hill up to 9 but I took a better route to 10 and punched just behind her. From here I knew I had the win as we had a track run up to the finish and she could not get the 2 min back. I was stuffed and had to walk a fair bit of the way. Happy to win on such a nice area. I felt strong and confident with my orienteering most of the way just need to be physically fitter and stronger.
Started 2 min after Jenny, was a bit wayward going to 1, lucky the track saved me. Sloppy direction going to 2 but got it fine and had to turn the control on, thought that was a bit weird. The same happened at 3 and I worked out I must now be in front. I could feel Jenny mowing me down on the long uphill drag to 4 and sure enough saw her head pop around the corner just as I punched - a pity as I could have made some time there with the tricky WA control placement - virtually in a convenient blackboy. We leap frogged each other for 5 and 6 then took different routes to 7, arriving at the same time. Stuck together going to 8 but she was edging ahead. She got to the circle first and has heading away but I called her back, I knew it had to be the right place and again my local knowledge paid off as the control placement was another WA special. She got a gap on the hill up to 9 but I took a better route to 10 and punched just behind her. From here I knew I had the win as we had a track run up to the finish and she could not get the 2 min back. I was stuffed and had to walk a fair bit of the way. Happy to win on such a nice area. I felt strong and confident with my orienteering most of the way just need to be physically fitter and stronger.
Wednesday Sep 24, 2014 #
Orienteering 20:00 [3] 2.5 km (8:00 / km)
shoes: Kayano (blue)
Lucky for me, Paula set up a training exercise in the same park where Aoife goes to vacation care, so after picking up Aoife I tried out the course. I was pretty rusty and not running too well after a stressful start to the week. 2 days to go!
Sunday Sep 21, 2014 #
11 AM
Run 46:57 [3] 6.6 km (7:07 / km) +82m 6:42 / km
shoes: Kayano (blue)
A bit too much bitumen running and it cost me when I chose the paths but fun anyway. Lost time at 7, 10 and 11. Fun to do some real orienteering in the park.
3 PM
Cycling 1:00:00 [2] 11.0 km (11.0 kph) +82m
With Aoife, Paula and Nea, quite good apart from the markets set up along and on the bike path... Lucky Eoin was not with us :).
The ride got off to quite an exciting start with a red-bellied black snake sunning itself beside the bike path in the car park. It certainly wasn't post-hibernation sleepy, as when it did decide to move along it moved very quickly.
The ride got off to quite an exciting start with a red-bellied black snake sunning itself beside the bike path in the car park. It certainly wasn't post-hibernation sleepy, as when it did decide to move along it moved very quickly.