Orienteering race (Frazzle day 2 cameo) 2:48:20 [4] 19.54 km (8:37 / km)
ahr:161 max:185
Since I was planning on being out there for quite a while I wore a hydration pack.
Took the long round the hill route to 2, stuffed around for quite a while around 3, which was most likely already in the correct position since I'd seen Richard Matthews walking back towards the map change area with a control on my earlier round the mountain trek.
Was surprised when someone caught me around 5, since I thought everyone else would have been way ahead already, still had him in sight till around 9.
....hmm, I was sure I'd already loaded my route onto routegadget, I'll just do it again ... if I can pick the right gpx file .... gahh internet's not working again ....
Took another long way round from 12 to 13, going through the paddocks to the north to avoid going up and down the hill and having to work out where I was along the way.
No major problems back to the map change and was going well on the long leg from 22 to 23 keeping contact along the way, remembered the location of 17 (since it was on the 1st map back at the map change) went straight back into it the same way I'd earlier came out of there and then using it as an attackpoint I took a bad angle and stuffed around a bit before getting 23.
Got off track again on the way to 24, eventually realised where the watercourses I was crossing were. Stuffed around with some thick bush, cliffs and going round the wrong way to the gully to get 27.
Overall happy with my effort, under 3 hrs and under 20km, lot less big time consuming errors than I've been making lately, but Wil beat me by nearly 20mins, which is pretty disappointing.
Cancelling the results because one control was on the wrong rock surface seems a bit soft to me and a bit harsh on the setters and some of the early starters who seemed to find it without too much delay. Of course since I initially thought the rock surface symbol meant a clearing and the correct rock surface was only about 4x4 not the 20x20 indicated, I was always going to have trouble finding it.