Welcome to Angela's digital orienteering map archive!

Awesome fun course, mass start mad some pressure racing.
Controlled the first control but was put off by track looking bigger than it was so changed route and lost lots of time on leg 2. This part of the map got me once again. They should take that dodgy vege boundary off. Caught it up though on fast running legs. autious on low vis legs and went well apart from poking eye on tree. Confident on compass and it worked.
Came in for last loop same time as a group of girls so it was all fast finish (-: Mucked 24 too much by focusing on vege boundary too much again, so didnt catch many more people. Happy to finish 6th

cool race w variety
all good on first in green taking caution, then 5 I took it careful from green blob on clearing edge but bearing mustve been off as ended up at next track and had to come back in, shouldve runright around after all-but you never quite know!
6 was stupid, amber caught me and we hooned down track and I didnt take enough notice of how far we'd run, she went too high but i stayed low and convinced myself it should be here until bunch of people pushed me further W still seems strange.
Tessa caught me by now too so hooned it away on open paddocks catching amber,
cool loops in open made you keep focused and small hills added up. tried route choice training on leg -14 because bored of following amber(dt lack of options) but it seems I lost time doing this and straight was again best.
stinky fire on way to 17 ugh
kept focus through stripe and nailed em. Good confidence level here

nice suprise to come 5th, it was a tough day, need to improve green techniques

fast technical forest sprint
mistake on 9 when stressed as caught by other runners and left control too fast.
pack run for last 6 controls!
beautiful open old pines

glad to be back orienteering again w no shin pains (-:

11th

cool course w loops guys mass started 3min after me so had motivation to keep ahead and then catch up (they caught me on long leg to 1!)

confused myself using big trees on way to 1

annoying course because my nav was so messy, felt slow because on such farm you feel you should be able to run fast and this was tough when my read failed to understand the ups and downs scale seemed odd.


unsure where i was at 4 bad bearing!

lack of reading for 5 =waste time in gully instead of atop hill

finally some flow through 6-11 then over ran 12 after catching Cos and feeling good!

Fun night event with team from Waikato Orienteering.
My run was pretty good. Started same time as S Jager and hoped to keep up. Stayed w him into forest then lost confidence going to 2 and he got away, I wass still confused by Taupo gullies and not sure how to go up that bank which seemed steeper than on the map, checked out another control on stump then followed Jim up blacknerry bank. Should be more confident.
Caught Simon again on way to 3 but shame was that we'd both made mistake of taking gully too early, I saw open but was not definate enough w plan and felt like Id run far enough, in the dark distance perception is screwy. ran back to track to do it cleany as per original plan instead of trying to correct from where I was in blackberry infestation, this was beneficial, show that my plan worked.

good to 4 confident running along flat to hill almost back w simon but he flew off faster running in the open. I still hesitant but 5-6 good

carefull using stream to 7 and did well not being distracted by runners around me.

fast up hill simple leg to 8 but messed it up at the end big time. I spotted the risk in doing so but was unable to prevent it, esp when distracted by runner coming out of it. Needed more definate angle when leaving forest as horizontal gullies similar and never saw the trough. )-: relocated slowly from fence but simon long gone now and others catching me

good to 9 and 10 lots of gorse,

planned straight to 11 without realising uncrossable fence so had to go round prob the slow way but too late to change mind good attack but misread and expected control higher on hill.

into forest and suprised to be lower than expected and near fence but trusted this and found fast.

getting tired so stuffed around in gullys too long on way to 13

awesome rocks at 14

15 slow and careful,

bad exit direction from 15 felt by instinct but kept going instead of checking! up gully earlier than planned, just remembered to punch after changing map.

glad final loop only small and no more forest (-:

17 good
18 up to first depression then couldnt see sec ond it mustve been tiny.

indirect way to 19 but safe
finally to 20 and the finish

the most technical katoa po Ive done probably, so good challenge and neat area
team finished about 1.30pm w hamish and more cowbells. (-:
team: Blake, Jesper, Malin, Nic, Rolf, Angela, Hamish