Training Log Archive: O-ing

Event: MTB Orienteering - Turner Hill
 

Course 2. Given a dud hint before the start, so chose the good track around rather than the new, soft, uphill, shorter track - 6.73km to no. 1 (23.20). Saw Andre Morkel coming out of it and it was deja vue all over again: like at Aquinas I had difficulty passing him, got past 3 times but blew it each time. Firstly overshot 2, didn't see it; then chose to go left to no. 4, but that put me on the wrong single track, so had to climb to the top and back down again; then missed the way in to 7 and rode up the power line track at the back. the corrugations loosened the seatpost and by the end it was just about like riding a BMX in the circus. Still, a win is a win.

C • Deja vu again 1

Course 1 - Splits

Course 2 - Splits

Event: NavDash 8 - Scotch College
 

Slow after another cold enforced taper, but at least I could read the map as a result. 7th, a bit further down than I'm comfortable with. Sten nearly handed 6th to me but held on by 8 seconds. Very good win by Oscar.

Really wanted to do Floreat before the May rains set in, but woke up with a stuffed nose, so it looks like that cold has arrived (or returned) - and I can't blame Aoife for it!