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Sunday Jun 24, 2018 #
10 AM
Run race ((orienteering)) 23:52 [4] *** 3.0 km (7:57 / km) +40m 7:27 / km
spiked:6/6c
Running in one of the regional events, about 60km north of Guangzhou, in an area which was mostly lychee forest (it's harvest season - I seem to be making a habit of being at local fruit harvest festivals) with a bit of village stuff thrown in. Interesting area for the experience, although not viable as a World Cup middle area - too technically simple, and too small.
Not sure if I was seeing a representative sample, but control flow didn't seem to be amongst the stronger points of the local competitors. I at least got that bit right, but struggled with the running side of things on another very humid day (this will become a familiar statement by the end of the week). Wouldn't have wanted to be much further, and wasn't up to sprinting up the dam wall to the last control, either.
There was a TV broadcast today (good to see this in good shape as preparation for the World Cup) - spent 10 minutes or so being interviewed, in front of an audience which probably got a decimal point in the Chinese ratings (which probably still meant it had more viewers than the State of Origin). They also seemed to issue everyone with watch-style GPS trackers, which means they must be cheap - will need to make some enquiries about this.
Now back in Guangzhou for the next step - the IPCC meeting. Did some scouting of the neighbourhood in the late afternoon; amongst the discoveries made is that the Decathlon outlet across the road sells running socks for 24.90 for three pairs, which means it costs considerably less to throw your dirty socks out and buy new ones than it does to get the hotel to wash them (15 per pair). I'm doing neither, having applied the stomp-shampoo-on-them-in-the-shower method to my washing, which leaves the bathroom looking like what my grandmother would have described as a Chinese laundry.
Not sure if I was seeing a representative sample, but control flow didn't seem to be amongst the stronger points of the local competitors. I at least got that bit right, but struggled with the running side of things on another very humid day (this will become a familiar statement by the end of the week). Wouldn't have wanted to be much further, and wasn't up to sprinting up the dam wall to the last control, either.
There was a TV broadcast today (good to see this in good shape as preparation for the World Cup) - spent 10 minutes or so being interviewed, in front of an audience which probably got a decimal point in the Chinese ratings (which probably still meant it had more viewers than the State of Origin). They also seemed to issue everyone with watch-style GPS trackers, which means they must be cheap - will need to make some enquiries about this.
Now back in Guangzhou for the next step - the IPCC meeting. Did some scouting of the neighbourhood in the late afternoon; amongst the discoveries made is that the Decathlon outlet across the road sells running socks for 24.90 for three pairs, which means it costs considerably less to throw your dirty socks out and buy new ones than it does to get the hotel to wash them (15 per pair). I'm doing neither, having applied the stomp-shampoo-on-them-in-the-shower method to my washing, which leaves the bathroom looking like what my grandmother would have described as a Chinese laundry.
6 PM
Note
One of the other Australians here, when I mentioned the World Cup-related things I was doing this weekend before the meeting, said that my schedule made her tired just thinking about it. I responded that hers did the same to me, and mine is more predictable. (She has a nine-month-old daughter).