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Sunday May 17, 2015 #
10 AM
Run race ((orienteering)) 1:37:11 [4] **** 10.4 km (9:21 / km) +430m 7:45 / km
spiked:17/20c
NSW Long Championships at Gumble. A respectable run, not as far behind Lachlan as I expected (although I think that might say a bit about his run too), and just behind Eric to miss out on the placings. A pair of fourths from the weekend but today was definitely better than yesterday.
The area has become a fair bit thicker since 2001 (the last time I was on this part) - lots of regrowth, which you can generally get through but reduces the visibility. This makes things even more challenging, especially since over a lot of the map there isn't a great deal of definition in the contours. Started slowly - back wasn't quite 100% early on - but got through the first few OK, only dropping 15 seconds at 2 which I don't think was quite on the right side of the rock (Lachlan caught me there). Was with Daniel Hill (who had a common section) from 3-5, then catching Simon Rouse as we broke out into the open from 6-9. Went through him at 9 and continued to plug away fairly solidly, until dropping 30 seconds or so at 14, the start of the long leg. Heard but didn't see someone coming in there who I suspected was Jock (4 minutes back). Took the high route on the long leg, was a little high into the control (another 30 seconds or so) and saw Jock coming through, with Simon with him. They were too far in front for me to go after them and I couldn't have matched their speed anyway, but I still ran the last section reasonably well. Seemed to be running fairly slowly and not super-aggressively in the rough terrain, but still generally happy with this. It will be 30% longer, probably, next weekend which raises the degree of difficulty a bit....
For those of you who didn't make it: you missed a good one. Gumble has always been a good area but the lower visibility now makes it an outstanding one, reminiscent in places of the Bermuda Triangle section of Kooyoora. The vegetation needs a remap (most of the smaller clearings are gone), but this is now one of the best three or four areas in the country in my view.
The area has become a fair bit thicker since 2001 (the last time I was on this part) - lots of regrowth, which you can generally get through but reduces the visibility. This makes things even more challenging, especially since over a lot of the map there isn't a great deal of definition in the contours. Started slowly - back wasn't quite 100% early on - but got through the first few OK, only dropping 15 seconds at 2 which I don't think was quite on the right side of the rock (Lachlan caught me there). Was with Daniel Hill (who had a common section) from 3-5, then catching Simon Rouse as we broke out into the open from 6-9. Went through him at 9 and continued to plug away fairly solidly, until dropping 30 seconds or so at 14, the start of the long leg. Heard but didn't see someone coming in there who I suspected was Jock (4 minutes back). Took the high route on the long leg, was a little high into the control (another 30 seconds or so) and saw Jock coming through, with Simon with him. They were too far in front for me to go after them and I couldn't have matched their speed anyway, but I still ran the last section reasonably well. Seemed to be running fairly slowly and not super-aggressively in the rough terrain, but still generally happy with this. It will be 30% longer, probably, next weekend which raises the degree of difficulty a bit....
For those of you who didn't make it: you missed a good one. Gumble has always been a good area but the lower visibility now makes it an outstanding one, reminiscent in places of the Bermuda Triangle section of Kooyoora. The vegetation needs a remap (most of the smaller clearings are gone), but this is now one of the best three or four areas in the country in my view.
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