Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Today was my 40th orienteering birthday, so to speak. It would have been nice had there been an event (the 30th was on a WMOC qualifying day), but there wasn't, so instead I had a go at getting my terrain legs on one of the local areas - a strip of moraine mapped at 1:5000. Never really got on top of working out what was what on the map (and, without flags, it wasn't that easy at times to determine whether I'd found the control), and not a lot of energy. Good to be out, but didn't fill me with a lot of confidence about running myself into a final in five days' time.

Didn't notice the heat that much (it was 28, but the humidity was low) - Guangzhou did me good in at least that respect. Forest was almost as bone-dry as a Bendigo February.

I'm not sure if someone neglected to check the acronym, or did check the acronym and was being deeply subversive, in proposing the Trump administration's latest salvo, the Fair And Responsible Trade Act.