Orienteering race (TurkeyTrot) 1:59:17 [4] 18.69 km (6:23 / km) +824m 5:14 / km
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon 212
Turkey Trot 2018
1st place to first control! thats all that matters. Ended up finishing with Keelan about 30 seconds behind Glenn.
So many big and small errors by all three of us through the race meant we were running around each other the whole way which was heaps of fun.
Made about 5 conscious risky plays out of the group to take slightly inefficient route-choices with the hope of making a gap, but none of them really paid off enough to matter.
Biggest error cost about 6 minutes. I was only 20seconds or so behind Glenn and missed an indistinct track on the right of a long trail stretch. Only realised 1km further along and had to turn around and run back, finding keelan at the junction. Up the next hill, Glenn had made an identical type of mistake at the control itself, losing 6 minutes, so we were all running together again. That mistake might have cost me the win really, with not much real nav after that.
In the last 5k or so made 3 little risky plays out of the group trying to shortcut track bends etc... one costing me 30s (with keelan thankfully pointing me in the direction of the control he'd just punched) and the other maybe a bit more (wasn't sure where i re-met the track)
Felt cooked and was trying to spur on Keelan to push to catch Glenn but he was too far gone.
Love this race