Orienteering colour coded event *series 4* Braemar Hill

*Hehe things were really good today! Soo happy! …Cuz i think i won my categroy for orienteering! teehee. Well I was still first when I left the event center at 1:30 so i guess…even if i don’t come first I’m come second…

I don’t really believe that i did come first? Although I did tell people that I really really wanted to come first, i didn’t really i could do it because it is quite hard…to be first. Basically it was quite an easy trail and I never got really lost. and because i aimed to come first, i jogged most of the way *soo tiring! Luckily i’ve been doing exercise these few days, went running with em. y on saturday so despite my lack of sleep, i felt quite energetic.

so the first 5 check points were really easy. then came the harder check pt 6…which i spent quite long finding…because there were lots of paths that led to it. after 6 and 7…then it was straight forward again. This event was much easier than series 1 or 2 because there was less uphill and all the controls were at quite obvious places. I thought the first competition was the most difficult because a lot of controls were in the middle of nowhere.

Another good thing was that at check point 7, i saw a girl who’s starting time was 10:06. Mine was 10:03, so in order to beat her i would need to win by 3 minutes. The trouble was that she was sprinting the whole way. so that’s what i did too… sprinted with my 800m pace(which is quite slow, but yeh…). Luckily i didn’t get any cramps. I never caught up with the girl, but it turns out that she wasn’t in my age group. so she motivated me to run faster because if it weren’t for her, i probably would have run 3-5 minutes slower and that would place me 4th.

my running time was 55:55. What a cool number!

I think i get some sort of reward but i dunno what it is…it’s the joy of winning that’s most estatic!

After the competition the results weren’t posted yet so i went hiking with mr. mussy. Haha i know his entire life story now, but it was interesting. After the competition we went to eat Jap food in Causeway, and then i went home to sleep. the nap was soooo relaxing. i sleep!

Orienteering is not a part of life……Orienteering is life!