orienteering race (Vic Middle Jubilee Lake) 29:52 [3] 2.8 km (10:40 / km)
shoes: Inov8 OROC 270 blue/orange
Not sure when the last time I'd been to Jubilee Lake Caravan Park would have been, but it doesn't appear to have changed much since Susanne & I stayed here for Aust Champs 1995 (with our respective boyfriends, neither of whom orienteer any more...). Likewise I hadn't been on this map, originally named Lake Wombat, for about 20 years. Glad to be old enough today to have a 1:7 500 map, haha, and actually I found the gold-mining detail very readable and the actual diggings not as fearsome as I'd feared, although I did go wide on the leg 5-6 which I think was a poor route choice. Kept seeing Meredith Gray who'd started 2 min before me but appears to have lost time on the first control - she runs a lot faster than I do of course but I think I was lucky sometimes to see her leaving a control (the visibility was much better than expected).
A bit annoyed at myself for overrunning the 9th control by probably not much more than a minute, then after control 10 the navigational aspect was over already and it was a track run in. Think our course could have stood to be a *little* longer since Sara Prince won W45 in 23:33, but TBH I had expected to be that much down on whoever won, anyway. Not complaining about 4th on the day although this was probably more luck than judgement, as my father is wont to say. Great to catch up with Hania and her parents today, hadn't seen them since a little pandemic was brewing 30 months ago.