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Sunday Jan 6, 2013 #
Orienteering Race 37:26 [4] 3.5 km (10:42 / km) +110m 9:15 / km
Oceania Middle @ Manga Pirau. NZ45 team.
despite feeling sick I was looking forward to some real techno stuff and promissed to myself that there were to be no errors. Had to do some seroius taping of the feet in order just to walk as the sand caused some horredous blisters on my soft as babies feet yesterday. Went like the clapers to c1 via the coastal beach route. Still only got 4th split (3 seconds down)!
c2/c3 tricky so took care costing 30 secs wtf. c4/c5 fairly straight foward so went as flat out as the body could muster so surprised that it was only good enough for 8th and 5th splits!
c6 should have been sweet via path out to outer dunes but I decided to go the shortest possible route possible, on the line. Unfortunately it bought me to the control site riddled with ups'ndowns of which I couldn't be sure of so I darted around in hope for 1:18 before finding it. All good to c8 where I was now sitting in 5th. From here the shit started hitting the fan for some reason...
c9 easy but indecisive of route so changed mind after starting, which seemed to make me lose focus and got mixed up in the red zone losing 1:23 (30th split time). c10 looked tricky and awesome, followed deep gullies through the dunes to the right area but then couldn't pick the right reentrant. Mapping style due to simplifying wouldn't have helped but it was in the right spot. 32nd split dropping 1:10 to 10th. c11 another hard one, One of the European runners had passed me and I could see him going straight, over the complex dunes, so I decided to catch him to gain time. Bad move as he failed miserably and I really struggled to relocate after not knowing where we were. Another 2:35 lost Ahhhh. c12 a repeat excercise along the detailed dune ridge offered straight but too complex, out to the beach and careful into control or inland and slower to bigger features, Having got bamboozelled I took the easiest and longest inland, but I also managed to get confused because of the very strange and stupid decision to not show every Index contour. ??? Lost another 1:45.
Race looking shit now but still quite a few tight controls left through the Macrocarpa trees so kept pushing hard while trying to be clean. Didn't quite go to plan with c15 as it was a tough route choice running around the tree edges up and down some scrubby steep dunes. Angry about my choice as there was an easier and flatter one, although most did the same as me as far as I know... so pulled finger with the next going like a pro and got fastest split. Now why can't I do that all the time. Got wind of some competition for fastest finish split so went stupidly hard , only to be frustratingly blocked by traffic, but still won it. Yes.
Lucky I didn't give in as ended fastest kiwi team member for a nz middle win. Finished in 5th after all that, due to the carnage and a mostly fast paced effort.
despite feeling sick I was looking forward to some real techno stuff and promissed to myself that there were to be no errors. Had to do some seroius taping of the feet in order just to walk as the sand caused some horredous blisters on my soft as babies feet yesterday. Went like the clapers to c1 via the coastal beach route. Still only got 4th split (3 seconds down)!
c2/c3 tricky so took care costing 30 secs wtf. c4/c5 fairly straight foward so went as flat out as the body could muster so surprised that it was only good enough for 8th and 5th splits!
c6 should have been sweet via path out to outer dunes but I decided to go the shortest possible route possible, on the line. Unfortunately it bought me to the control site riddled with ups'ndowns of which I couldn't be sure of so I darted around in hope for 1:18 before finding it. All good to c8 where I was now sitting in 5th. From here the shit started hitting the fan for some reason...
c9 easy but indecisive of route so changed mind after starting, which seemed to make me lose focus and got mixed up in the red zone losing 1:23 (30th split time). c10 looked tricky and awesome, followed deep gullies through the dunes to the right area but then couldn't pick the right reentrant. Mapping style due to simplifying wouldn't have helped but it was in the right spot. 32nd split dropping 1:10 to 10th. c11 another hard one, One of the European runners had passed me and I could see him going straight, over the complex dunes, so I decided to catch him to gain time. Bad move as he failed miserably and I really struggled to relocate after not knowing where we were. Another 2:35 lost Ahhhh. c12 a repeat excercise along the detailed dune ridge offered straight but too complex, out to the beach and careful into control or inland and slower to bigger features, Having got bamboozelled I took the easiest and longest inland, but I also managed to get confused because of the very strange and stupid decision to not show every Index contour. ??? Lost another 1:45.
Race looking shit now but still quite a few tight controls left through the Macrocarpa trees so kept pushing hard while trying to be clean. Didn't quite go to plan with c15 as it was a tough route choice running around the tree edges up and down some scrubby steep dunes. Angry about my choice as there was an easier and flatter one, although most did the same as me as far as I know... so pulled finger with the next going like a pro and got fastest split. Now why can't I do that all the time. Got wind of some competition for fastest finish split so went stupidly hard , only to be frustratingly blocked by traffic, but still won it. Yes.
Lucky I didn't give in as ended fastest kiwi team member for a nz middle win. Finished in 5th after all that, due to the carnage and a mostly fast paced effort.