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Sunday Mar 23, 2014 #
9 AM
Orienteering race 1:37:24 [5] ***** 11.2 km (8:42 / km)
shoes: VJ Sticky
NOL Long distance at Kangaroo Crossing. A much better run today and an enjoyable one. Unfortunately, a good first half was followed by a sloppy second half and when you add a bad route choice on the long leg this wasn't quite as good as I had hoped for.
I'd been studying the course from the 2012 Vic long champs and there was a leg not dissimilar to the first leg today. At no point had I thought straight was a good route choice but that's what I did today. Somewhat amazingly I managed to get myself to my attack point (the clearing just before) nicely but was a little confused and dropped a minute and a half from there. Still I was very pleased to have found it without much more major time lost. I got around to 10 quite well but lost some time on 5 and 6.
On 11 I decided to go straight but 'optimised' my route as I went to swing wider left. Stupid really and realised afterwards that I did 200m climb on this one leg. Unfortunately, things went south after this and lost moderate time due to sloppiness on 13, 14, 15, and 17. Total time lost by the end something like 8min.
I'd been studying the course from the 2012 Vic long champs and there was a leg not dissimilar to the first leg today. At no point had I thought straight was a good route choice but that's what I did today. Somewhat amazingly I managed to get myself to my attack point (the clearing just before) nicely but was a little confused and dropped a minute and a half from there. Still I was very pleased to have found it without much more major time lost. I got around to 10 quite well but lost some time on 5 and 6.
On 11 I decided to go straight but 'optimised' my route as I went to swing wider left. Stupid really and realised afterwards that I did 200m climb on this one leg. Unfortunately, things went south after this and lost moderate time due to sloppiness on 13, 14, 15, and 17. Total time lost by the end something like 8min.