Orienteering (Aust Sprint Champs) 17:07 [5]
shoes: Nike Zoom Streak XC
Canberra Grammar - 11th elite, 14th overall. Great run physically, navigationally not so good!
Started pretty well, took the left route to 3 which after I though may hav been fractionally slower but got a quick so maybe not. Rest of first loop was clean and I as 4th coming out of 9. 10 was the jurist blunder, I sat the control and figured it wasn't outs as I was looking for a man made feature (thinking table etc in me head) but it turns out the blood pole was mapped and it was mind. Turns out it was in the info but it still seems strange to me. So about 23-25sec lost here. Next fuck up was 14, I had it in my head I had I had to exit the spectator the way I came (not true) and then got all confused and ended up losing about 30 - 35sec. Rest of the course wasn't too bad, maybe a few secs each on 15 and 24.
Pretty disappointing result but the upside is without those two errors I was quick and up in top 6 or so. Gives me confidence for the future and the feedback that the training is doing something - just need to put a clean run together!