Aus Orienteering Champs Day 5

Thursday, 4 October 2018

Today was the official start of the Schools Championships, so after some house table tennis Nicola and I headed out to the event to watch the runners come in. 

The owners of this place we are staying at seem to have two big interests, quaint car memorabilia, and parisian themed nick-nacks - both of which are spread liberally throughout the house.  Whilst it's not exactly to our taste, it's a big and comfortable and pretty close to the rest of the events so it's great.

Anyway - out at the orienteering I saw Zali run in with a pretty good time (although she lost 4 minutes on one control early on). Her time was good enough for 7th overall, just missing out on being in the top 3 Australians - so she was happy with that.

A little while later Jett came in with a decent time in the the junior boys competition (once again ahead of some of the official team members which shows how much he has improved since the selection trials).  Nic's daughter Ivy is a reserve on the ACT team just like Jett - so they both get to run the same course as the other kids but their results don't count towards the teams results - so they get the same experiences as the team members, but without of the pressure!  

Ivy also did pretty well in what was a longer course than she had ever run at 6.1 km (and I know exactly how long it felt as I ran her course later on as part of the public race series).

By the time I had run my race we'd spent nearly the entire day out at the event (and after being 28 degrees on the previous day, it was puffa jacket weather today).  I'm looking forward to the rest day on Friday that's for sure!