orienteering race (Mt Beckworth) 1:29:00 [3] 5.9 km (15:05 / km) +250m 12:27 / km
shoes: Inov8 Oroc spikes
Hmm...somewhat better than yesterday (possibly because when George & I rejected the one pub in Clunes as being rather *too* rural, we went into Ballarat and found both Blair and a good Italian place - so I ate lots of pasta) but still very slow going. I mean: I can't run up hills, down hills, or along the side of hills, at least not in O shoes because they are too unstable. I just have no terrain legs, which makes a mockery of any pretensions I may have to being able to run elites. Actually starting to wonder whether I can manage 4 days in a row at Easter. The irony is that I have actually been doing a reasonable amount of something which passes for training, and yet the boys were going past me like I was standing still and they weren't even noticing all the junk on the ground. As far as I recall, I navigated pretty cleanly though. And the views were great.