Overall, it was a rather disappointing week :(
I managed to get rather sick after the first day of competition. It was an extremely cold and wet day, and even after I had tried to warm down and get changed into completely dry warm clothes, I just could not get warm :S
The race was not that great. I managed to have a few mistakes in the beginning of the course, then a massive one at number 9 where I just did not see it for so long (can see on the GPS here). After that I had lost a lot of motivating and had a few mistakes here and there...
So, not off to a very good start...
The middle distance was so much fun! So much contour detail as it was set in an old gold mining area. I felt very blocked up and had a sore throat, so I just tried to make sure I could navigate well...this plan did not work as well...turns out I should have even slowed down a lot more! I was just running too fast for my navigation and then was getting really tired and making more mistakes...overall not a great race, mistakes everywhere!eek...
During the week we did a bit of travelling and ran the public race for the Schools champs, and the Australian Relay champs...was still sick during the week, so was a mission to run, so mistakes everywhere again...but we ended up winning the Relay in W21E with Tessa Ramsden and Jean Cory-Wright which was pretty fun :P
We ended up in Cooma, NSW for the last few races. Friday was the Oceania Sprint (forest sprint) which was ok...just a small mistake, but hard to run once again...Saturday the Long..was a good start, although stuffed up 6 and totally ballsed it up in the end...felt rather lethargic and really light headed...think this is a combo of trying to push and being still stick :/ later that night I just felt so bad, sore kidneys and felt rather nauseous...so was unsure if I would run the relay the next day.
I decided to run the relay, although I still wasn't feeling that better :S I managed to do ok, not many mistakes, I just found it so hard to run ...
Was a really fun week, but probably not the best week of orienteering for me :( Just wish I felt good as the terrain was so cool and I really enjoyed running in OZ after 3 whole years! Oh well...these things happen...just have to push on and think about the good parts of the week and apply them later on :)
The last 2 weeks I have had sooo much uni work! Had a presentation on my Research paper and the whole report due a few days ago..I had an entire resting week from Monday to Sunday straight after OZ, which was so good to do...especially with all the uni work...
In the last week I have been for 2 jogs and 2 orienteering trainings out at Woodhill with some of the Auckland O'ers and Johanna Lönnkvist who is here from Sweden for 3 months :)
