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Saturday Sep 21, 2013 #
1 PM
Orienteering race 38:49 5.58 km (6:57 / km) +188m 5:57 / km
ahr:163 max:214 shoes: Inov-8 X-Talon 212
WA Middle Champs at Little Nganga. Thought this was going to be my best chance of being competitive as I just don't have the fitness to be competitive in a long race now. I think this may have made me a bit nervous because my heart was all over the place from about 10am. Heart rate hit 170 standing in the start grid but I tried to just ignore it and do the best I could anyway.
Didn't feel I had good map contact across the flat hilltop to 1 but tried hard to stay on compass and hit it well. Confident into 2 choosing to go below the rocks as it looked faster but it was high in the gully so lost a few seconds. I think 2 being a bit high threw me off a bit heading to 3 but I recognised the oval boulder and got it ok. Happy with 4 but got my exit direction from 4 a bit wrong and ran much wider left than I wanted to across to 5. I knew where I was but I had intended to run back past 1 and probably lost 10 seconds or more by running wide. 6 was ok but 7 I ran a little low and then went down to check the boulder below even though I was pretty sure of what it was, stupid really and probably cost me an extra 20 seconds. 8 looked easy but was very hard to see. Had a moment of panic but actually found it pretty quickly and had the fastest split.
A couple of longer legs with a bit of gentle climb across to 9 and 10 had me struggling physically and mentally as I imagined Henry and Tomas running away from me. Still felt every control had potential for a big mistake so didn't give up all hope. Got 11 and 12 ok then wasted a bit of time at 13 standing next to the boulder on the edge of the clearing thinking I should be able to see it. Once I dared to move I found it no problem.
Left 13 uphill but dropped to find better running and misinterpreted some rocks to hit the spur much lower than I thought. Chose the right direction but was quite slow about it losing about a minute and with that nearly all hope of winning. Tried to keep pushing to the end and hit 15 and 16 ok but I was having trouble concentrating and it cost me over the last few controls with a number of little wobbles and hesitations which probably cost another minute all up.
Finished up 3rd only a minute behind Tomas and 2:42 behind Henry which was better than I expected but still a bit disappointing as I felt it was a missed opportunity.
Didn't feel I had good map contact across the flat hilltop to 1 but tried hard to stay on compass and hit it well. Confident into 2 choosing to go below the rocks as it looked faster but it was high in the gully so lost a few seconds. I think 2 being a bit high threw me off a bit heading to 3 but I recognised the oval boulder and got it ok. Happy with 4 but got my exit direction from 4 a bit wrong and ran much wider left than I wanted to across to 5. I knew where I was but I had intended to run back past 1 and probably lost 10 seconds or more by running wide. 6 was ok but 7 I ran a little low and then went down to check the boulder below even though I was pretty sure of what it was, stupid really and probably cost me an extra 20 seconds. 8 looked easy but was very hard to see. Had a moment of panic but actually found it pretty quickly and had the fastest split.
A couple of longer legs with a bit of gentle climb across to 9 and 10 had me struggling physically and mentally as I imagined Henry and Tomas running away from me. Still felt every control had potential for a big mistake so didn't give up all hope. Got 11 and 12 ok then wasted a bit of time at 13 standing next to the boulder on the edge of the clearing thinking I should be able to see it. Once I dared to move I found it no problem.
Left 13 uphill but dropped to find better running and misinterpreted some rocks to hit the spur much lower than I thought. Chose the right direction but was quite slow about it losing about a minute and with that nearly all hope of winning. Tried to keep pushing to the end and hit 15 and 16 ok but I was having trouble concentrating and it cost me over the last few controls with a number of little wobbles and hesitations which probably cost another minute all up.
Finished up 3rd only a minute behind Tomas and 2:42 behind Henry which was better than I expected but still a bit disappointing as I felt it was a missed opportunity.
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