Wiki Factory Racing

After my win the previous week, I was pretty confident that I could back it up with another win this week. Half of the controls were based around the houses on Mt Pleasant which meant It would hopefully be easy to travel around the course quickly while also finding the controls accurately. As the event started I took off in a group with eventual 2 hour winner Tim Farrant and Nick Ross. We flowed through the first few controls quickly and soon made a large gap to everyone else trying to follow us. From here we then parted ways as they continued up the hill and I started my way around the lower loop of controls. From here it was just a case of running along the roads as fast as I could to ensure I got all the points I planned. I'm quite happy with the way my running form is coming along and I felt like I was moving around the course well. In the end I finished with time to spare despite collecting all the points I had planned (which I thought may have been overly optimistic).

After the Victoria Park rogaine and my win in the last 1 hour rogaine I did, I had huge expectations of a good result again. It was a nice warm clear night and the map looked like a great course. As the event started, I ran off in completely the opposite direction to everyone else. While I would normally be worried by this, I was confident in my plan and my navigation despite it being completely dark. I grabbed my first set of points and then somehow managed to rejoin everyone else at the front of the field. I quickly found the next few points then continued off on my plan. Despite the map looking deceptively easy, the terrain had some interesting features and made for some fun navigation. There were a lot of people who were struggling to find the checkpoints while I was flowing around the course accurately and fast. The only mistake I made was running past one checkpoint I had planned to get at the end before my time ran out. Despite this I still finished with 540 points whi

The Victoria Park rogaine on the 7th of June was a good opportunity for me to swap out my long training run for an event which could also double as some nav practise for the upcoming adventure races. I went into the event fairly confident of a good result due to my running form coming along quite nicely and my navigation being fairly accurate these past few months at the 1 hour rogaine series. I also had a good plan which I felt, despite missing a few points, would still result in a good score which would place me highly in the event. I flowed around the course well and only made a couple of wee mistakes which cost minimal time. I finished with 1430 points which I was pretty happy with. When the results came out I was surprised to see I was 11th Open men (5th individual), not exactly the result I expected after what I felt was a fairly good performance.