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Sunday Jan 6, 2013 #
4 PM
Orienteering race 30:29 4.18 km (7:17 / km) +4m 7:15 / km
ahr:167 max:175
Oceania Festival Day 3, Manga Pirau, M45A. 1st.
Another sand dunes area, but this time with a reasonable amount of the course in open dunes rather than forest. I got lucky! Rob Jessop came and introduced himself to me at the start (aparently we'd run against each other years ago at an OK Nuts Trophy race). Rob then started 2 minutes ahead of me, but blew the first control, so just as I was approaching it he was arriving from the opposite direction. He then sprinted off towards number 2, and I did my best to hang on to him. I managed to hang on, but only just - he was doing the navigation, and I was map reading only enough to know roughly where we were if it all went wrong.
On a leg through some crappy bushy stuff he took a different route and I got ahead, but I then hesitated and he came by again. He did finally break away at the end, to finish 20 seconds before me. Had I not got a tow, Rob would have won by a deecent margin.
Another sand dunes area, but this time with a reasonable amount of the course in open dunes rather than forest. I got lucky! Rob Jessop came and introduced himself to me at the start (aparently we'd run against each other years ago at an OK Nuts Trophy race). Rob then started 2 minutes ahead of me, but blew the first control, so just as I was approaching it he was arriving from the opposite direction. He then sprinted off towards number 2, and I did my best to hang on to him. I managed to hang on, but only just - he was doing the navigation, and I was map reading only enough to know roughly where we were if it all went wrong.
On a leg through some crappy bushy stuff he took a different route and I got ahead, but I then hesitated and he came by again. He did finally break away at the end, to finish 20 seconds before me. Had I not got a tow, Rob would have won by a deecent margin.