Training Log Archive: Liam Dufty

Aus Middle Champs - M16A. Found it harder to keep map contact today than yesterday. I totally lost my place going to #2 and got really lucky to stumble across the control without losing much time. Got pulled off course by a bunch of controls that were not mine on #4 because I wasn't confident that I was matching things right, relocated ok but lost about 3 mins. No significant time losses for the rest of the course but still not super clean.

Aus Middle 16 - Splits

Event: Australian Orienteering Champs Pt 1
 

VIC Middle Champs - M16A. My first run in gold mining so I was taking it really slow out of the start, hit #1 and #2 ok, overshot number 3 and lost about 2.5 mins. Got #4 ok, then got took what I thought was a slower route choice through some very steep earth banks on the way to #5. I was 3rd on this split though, so it must have actually been faster than going around. I was (mostly) a lot better as the course went on, feeling a lot more comfortable recognising gold mining features. One more 3 min mistake at #10 pushed me down from 6th to 9th. I tripped over on the way up the hill out of #9, and oriented my map using the direction of the leg as north instead of the north lines.

Orienteering Grand Prix. Wasn't feeling up to pushing this hard, especially with the Aus Middle tomorrow. #3 I tried to go around the steeper earth banks to get into the control, but found that it didn't actually get any less steep on the brown earth bank than on the black. Lost a lot of places there since I had to come back and climb up earlier and I didn't want to try to push back up towards the front.

Vic Middle 6A - Splits

OGP 2 - Splits

Private lesson.

Hit with Alastair.

Hit with Alastair