Orienteering race 1:43:51 [3] 18.4 km (5:39 / km)
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon 212
Hagaby at Collins Ck. Lost a bit on the first control, too far right with Bruce and Ecmo. Saw Shep, Lachlan and Crosato ahead of me into the 4th, chased them down then courses split again. Came through run through just behind Shep and agpatch. Heard we were in the 2nd pack, hoped I had the longer split first then. 2nd loop pretty clean, kept seeing people appearing in front of me who I thought I had past due to the splitting. 3rd loop was good, saw Shep again towards the end but then stuffed the 9th one on that loop. Parallel error up a creek which I was trying to avoid doing. Dropped 3mins on Shep here according to splits. Heard I was in 2nd coming through spectator, hit the last loop alright except for ~1min on the 4th last. Pretty happy with this run, haven't run as hard for over 100mins before. Think I had a slight advantage knowing how to run through lantana well, but helped too that I hit the bingo controls without too much time loss. Hopefully can replicate this at WOC trials in a months time
