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Friday Apr 21, 2017 #
9 AM
Tennis 1:00:00 [1]
Hit with Liam before heading to Turangi to go rafting.
5 PM
Tennis 1:00:00 [1]
Another hit with Liam (some with Rachel) after getting back from rafting.
C • Log 3
Thursday Apr 20, 2017 #
5 PM
Tennis 1:00:00 [1]
Hit with Liam from our arrival at our tennis court house in Taupo until it got dark.
Wednesday Apr 19, 2017 #
9 AM
Orienteering 1:02:20 [4] 8.06 km (7:44 / km) +230m 6:46 / km
shoes: Inov-8 X-Talon 212 b
Middle Earth longish in The Redwoods - Whakarewarewa Forest, Rotorua.
Fantastic forest to run through but very hard to find a lot of controls on small features in the green so lots of time lost all over the place. I lost significant time on 11, 15, 20 and 23 with each being a bit worse than the one before. Just had a little trouble locating the small pit at the edge of the light green at 11. Going into 14 I went a little wrong and ended up approaching from the direction of 15 and then started following the line back to 13 instead of 15. Only realised when I thought it odd that I was heading back to the same road crossing I had just been through when I thought I remembered there being two crossings. Then made it worse by running to another control I could see from the track about 100m before mine. On 20 I had trouble understanding the contour that was partly obscured and I couldn't really work out a safe way of approaching the small depression in medium green. I overshot a bit and bumbled around for a while not knowing what to do when I saw Jon McComb run past looking confident so I tried running back where he had come from and found it. Caught up to Jon at 22 and considered the track route that he took from there but I realised this was the last significant leg and I thought I would rather have a last bit of running through the beautiful forest than a track run so I tried to straight line it. Knew where I was at the last track crossing but I missed it a bit high and had to come back off the track behind as I think many others did too. Jon got this cleanly, seeing others running out of it, and almost got back the 4 minutes that he had started before me (he dropped behind at 18). I pushed pretty hard to the finish because I knew Liam would want to compare finish splits. It turned out Liam had a different finish (and lost 3 minutes on it) anyway but it did help me go from 4 seconds behind to 3 seconds ahead of a Finn for 4th place.
Amy had a great run to be 2nd, less than a minute off 1st.
Fantastic forest to run through but very hard to find a lot of controls on small features in the green so lots of time lost all over the place. I lost significant time on 11, 15, 20 and 23 with each being a bit worse than the one before. Just had a little trouble locating the small pit at the edge of the light green at 11. Going into 14 I went a little wrong and ended up approaching from the direction of 15 and then started following the line back to 13 instead of 15. Only realised when I thought it odd that I was heading back to the same road crossing I had just been through when I thought I remembered there being two crossings. Then made it worse by running to another control I could see from the track about 100m before mine. On 20 I had trouble understanding the contour that was partly obscured and I couldn't really work out a safe way of approaching the small depression in medium green. I overshot a bit and bumbled around for a while not knowing what to do when I saw Jon McComb run past looking confident so I tried running back where he had come from and found it. Caught up to Jon at 22 and considered the track route that he took from there but I realised this was the last significant leg and I thought I would rather have a last bit of running through the beautiful forest than a track run so I tried to straight line it. Knew where I was at the last track crossing but I missed it a bit high and had to come back off the track behind as I think many others did too. Jon got this cleanly, seeing others running out of it, and almost got back the 4 minutes that he had started before me (he dropped behind at 18). I pushed pretty hard to the finish because I knew Liam would want to compare finish splits. It turned out Liam had a different finish (and lost 3 minutes on it) anyway but it did help me go from 4 seconds behind to 3 seconds ahead of a Finn for 4th place.
Amy had a great run to be 2nd, less than a minute off 1st.
Monday Apr 17, 2017 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 37:54 [4] 4.28 km (8:52 / km) +122m 7:45 / km
shoes: Inov-8 X-Talon 212 b
Oceania Middle.
Very steep and muddy area. Got a bit stuck in the first marshy creek I tried to cross and slipped over a few times on the first couple of hills and dropped into a very conservative mindset, just aiming to get around without hurting myself rather than really racing. Didn't feel I was reading the map very well, no significant mistakes but kept having to stop and work things out because things were often coming up much faster than I expected (1:7500) and most of the rock was much smaller than I was expecting. Don't really remember how I was feeling out on the course but I was enjoying running up and down the hill looking for Amy after I finished so I guess I didn't push as hard as I could have. Amy had already finished and was pretty pleased with herself for getting 6th place and 1st Australian.
Very steep and muddy area. Got a bit stuck in the first marshy creek I tried to cross and slipped over a few times on the first couple of hills and dropped into a very conservative mindset, just aiming to get around without hurting myself rather than really racing. Didn't feel I was reading the map very well, no significant mistakes but kept having to stop and work things out because things were often coming up much faster than I expected (1:7500) and most of the rock was much smaller than I was expecting. Don't really remember how I was feeling out on the course but I was enjoying running up and down the hill looking for Amy after I finished so I guess I didn't push as hard as I could have. Amy had already finished and was pretty pleased with herself for getting 6th place and 1st Australian.
Sunday Apr 16, 2017 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 34:34 [4] 4.98 km (6:56 / km) +92m 6:21 / km
shoes: Inov-8 X-Talon 212 b
Oceania Relays.
Signed up at the last minute before starting the long race to run last leg in a composite team with a Russian and Chinese. Turned out the Russian only did finished half of the M45AS course and the Chinese took 4 hours on M45A so I expected to be going in the 1pm mass start which I was not looking forward to but the Russian didn't turn up so I was very happy to swap to first leg instead.
Still wasn't particularly motivated to push hard but had a steady enough run and did about the same time as all the Australian team runners.
Signed up at the last minute before starting the long race to run last leg in a composite team with a Russian and Chinese. Turned out the Russian only did finished half of the M45AS course and the Chinese took 4 hours on M45A so I expected to be going in the 1pm mass start which I was not looking forward to but the Russian didn't turn up so I was very happy to swap to first leg instead.
Still wasn't particularly motivated to push hard but had a steady enough run and did about the same time as all the Australian team runners.
Saturday Apr 15, 2017 #
12 PM
Orienteering race 1:09:42 [4] 7.58 km (9:12 / km) +187m 8:11 / km
shoes: Inov-8 X-Talon 212 b
Oceania Long Champs at Rototoa (Woodhill).
Started poorly. Went for the conservative route around the tracks on 1 but misjudged the scale badly and stopped way short for a while. Eventually convinced myself I just had to keep going and found it ok but slowly. Probably lost a bit over a minute. Feeling pretty nervous after that so was very stop start through the next few but no real problems. Started to gain in confidence after a while and the rest of the course was pretty clean although I was starting to struggle a bit physically towards the end.
When I first looked at the results and saw my time would put me third I assumed there must be more to come in, then I remembered I was last starter and thought they must be having a problem with the results system, but in fact it was correct. I was a long way behind Darren and Carsten but also a long way ahead of Scott in 4th. The part I was most pleased about is that Aston Key was the only M18 to beat me.
Started poorly. Went for the conservative route around the tracks on 1 but misjudged the scale badly and stopped way short for a while. Eventually convinced myself I just had to keep going and found it ok but slowly. Probably lost a bit over a minute. Feeling pretty nervous after that so was very stop start through the next few but no real problems. Started to gain in confidence after a while and the rest of the course was pretty clean although I was starting to struggle a bit physically towards the end.
When I first looked at the results and saw my time would put me third I assumed there must be more to come in, then I remembered I was last starter and thought they must be having a problem with the results system, but in fact it was correct. I was a long way behind Darren and Carsten but also a long way ahead of Scott in 4th. The part I was most pleased about is that Aston Key was the only M18 to beat me.