Run race ((orienteering)) 1:34:25 [4] **** 11.7 km (8:04 / km)
spiked:24/29c
ACT Long Championships at Boboyan Divide. One of these days I'll run on this area when healthy, but today wasn't it - didn't seem to affect my endurance (I felt better in the last 10 minutes than at any other time during the race), but no strength on hills or for the large amount of log-jumping. There's a lot of interesting rock in the area, although it's also a frustrating area with the fallen timber and tussock grass - you always feel as if you should be going a lot faster than this on a map which is mostly fairly flat, and has about 40% yellow and not much green.
Worst time loss of the day was at 7, through trying to crash the green on the near side of the control - would have been much better off going around. Apart from that, a 20-second overshoot at 11 and a few wobbles was just about it. Strangely, the one split I won all day was 16, a downhill leg mostly through yellow - did everyone else try to go through the green on the straight-line exit from 15.
Impressive run by Ben, who did 84, just behind Grant. Dave squeezed me out of a place.
The weather held during the day, more or less. I was expecting some excitement on the way home and got some excitement, although the bag containing sleeping bag, Trangia and emergency supplies proved surplus to requirements. It was snowing quite heavily for a lot of the way from Cabramurra to Corryong, although it was only in the last bit that any was settling on the ground (or the road), as the ground was still relatively warm (it being the first snow of the season). This made for some interesting sights because metal cools down much more quickly, so there was a car park with quite heavy snow on the parked cars and road signs but none visible on the ground. I suspect it would have been a much more challenging trip had I left two hours later.