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Saturday Jan 6, 2007 #
Orienteering race 48:57 [4] 5.1 km (9:36 / km)
shoes: New Balance 872 Off Road
Day 4 of Ultimax Stingers 5 Days. A slightly longer course at Gumble Creek, with some longer legs through the less complex terrain. Finished 3rd in Mens C, about 3 minutes behind Nick Wilmott, and 1.5 minutes behind Hugh Moore in 2nd. Robert had a disaster on one leg near the end, lost about 20 minutes, which means the score is Grant 3 : Robert 1.
I had a very clean run for the first 9 controls but saw Russell Blatchford coming into 9 from a funny direction as I was leaving the control, and I started thinking 'Oh, there's Russell, why is he coming that way', and 'Hey, I'm having a good run', etc. rather than keeping on concentrating. Which meant I stuffed up the next two controls and lost about 2 minutes. The only good thing was that I didn't lose any places because of it.
I was also pleased with my navigation into 9. This was the same control (number 12) I stuffed up yesterday, but today I actually followed my plan from yesterday (the one I didn't follow), and it worked. You don't get many chances to have another go.
I had a very clean run for the first 9 controls but saw Russell Blatchford coming into 9 from a funny direction as I was leaving the control, and I started thinking 'Oh, there's Russell, why is he coming that way', and 'Hey, I'm having a good run', etc. rather than keeping on concentrating. Which meant I stuffed up the next two controls and lost about 2 minutes. The only good thing was that I didn't lose any places because of it.
I was also pleased with my navigation into 9. This was the same control (number 12) I stuffed up yesterday, but today I actually followed my plan from yesterday (the one I didn't follow), and it worked. You don't get many chances to have another go.