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Sunday Jun 12, 2016 #
11 AM
Run race ((orienteering)) 1:28:33 [4] *** 13.2 km (6:43 / km) +245m 6:08 / km
spiked:17/19c
Long day of QB3, in the Bom Bom State Forest just south of Grafton. I ran on an area north of Grafton at a junior squad challenge a long time ago (sufficiently long that I think at least four of my opponents today hadn't been born yet) and recalled it as being one where the number of controls on the course approximately equalled the number of features on the map. The course stats today suggested that it might be similarly bland, but it was a bit more interesting that that - probably similar to some of the Maryborough terrain, with a bit of detail in the gullies and some watercourses on the sides of slopes. Nevertheless, in most cases, the objective was to stay as close as possible to the straight line.
I felt pretty sluggish at the start, and given the way I was feeling on small hills, was glad that this area doesn't have any big ones. Never really running that well, but made a reasonable fist of staying close to straight lines (although one where I didn't, 11 where I went to the track, seems to have paid off from the splits). Only miss of any size was at 14 where I came in a bit low, but only 20 seconds or so. Seemed to pick up a bit in the last 20 minutes, and that showed in the splits too.
Shep did 71, a bit longer than I thought he would, and there was a cluster around 80, much of it comprising people who'd made mistakes yesterday but could run faster today. I'll be defending a 38-second gap on Andy Hill in the sprint tomorrow (not something I'll be confident of doing) after two narrow wins.
Might not be the world's most technical area, but it will be excellent for establishing a local base in Grafton (especially as it looks like there's enough area for two more maps), and is more runnable than I expected in a coastal climate.
Hugs score for Hug A Climate Scientist Day was five - four at orienteering and one from the person at the general store at Wooli, a place which saw a fairly spectacular climate extreme of its own this time last week. Whilst today saw about 459 millimetres less rain than last Sunday there (something of which there was surprisingly little evidence), it had still become not great for the beach by the time I got there.
I felt pretty sluggish at the start, and given the way I was feeling on small hills, was glad that this area doesn't have any big ones. Never really running that well, but made a reasonable fist of staying close to straight lines (although one where I didn't, 11 where I went to the track, seems to have paid off from the splits). Only miss of any size was at 14 where I came in a bit low, but only 20 seconds or so. Seemed to pick up a bit in the last 20 minutes, and that showed in the splits too.
Shep did 71, a bit longer than I thought he would, and there was a cluster around 80, much of it comprising people who'd made mistakes yesterday but could run faster today. I'll be defending a 38-second gap on Andy Hill in the sprint tomorrow (not something I'll be confident of doing) after two narrow wins.
Might not be the world's most technical area, but it will be excellent for establishing a local base in Grafton (especially as it looks like there's enough area for two more maps), and is more runnable than I expected in a coastal climate.
Hugs score for Hug A Climate Scientist Day was five - four at orienteering and one from the person at the general store at Wooli, a place which saw a fairly spectacular climate extreme of its own this time last week. Whilst today saw about 459 millimetres less rain than last Sunday there (something of which there was surprisingly little evidence), it had still become not great for the beach by the time I got there.