Orienteering race (Collins Creek Badge) 1:14:58 [5] *** 11.2 km (6:42 / km) +250m 6:01 / km
spiked:20/27c shoes: Jalas FLX
After a couple of days of illness I felt sufficiently recovered to attempt the badge event at Collins Creek. I'd been looking forward to it and after a couple of slow but technically profiicient runs recently was planning to crank it up a notch. Overall it I'm pretty happy with the result but I didn't quite hold the navigation together as well as I would have liked in the face of the increased intensity. A small handful of wobbles (2, 6, 18, and 24) was punctuated by a few bigger mistakes, 40s from mid-leg sloppiness on the way to 4, 30s leaving 12 the wrong way, and unfortunately about 45s at 25 after getting completely thrown by the unmarked track, and another 30s or so taking a too-conservative route to 26. I had Olly by 15s at 24 but then dropped behind with the last two mistakes. Held off Kurt by a couple of minutes. All in all, not too bad given illness and pre-start child poo incident.