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Friday Apr 2, 2021 #
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The word thing I was pondering on the road today was: how rare is it to see the word "noxious" unless it is immediately followed by "weed" or "weeds"?
3 PM
Run race ((orienteering)) 28:29 [3] *** 3.8 km (7:30 / km) +55m 6:59 / km
spiked:18/21c
Pre-Easter sprint. This week might have been encouraging but today wasn't - it's going to be a long four days if it's like this (but it probably won't be). Once I realised that things weren't happening today I walked the uphills and jogged the rest, not wanting to burn myself out too much for tomorrow. Still managed to make some mistakes at that slow pace, most notably at 20 where I misread the white around the number 20 as a gap in the building it was printed on.
Still good to see a big national event happening (and the Queenslanders even made it) - early in the year there were questions being raised as to whether we should press on with it, but I'm definitely glad we did. (It helps that Easter is an event a relatively late call can be made on, whereas for an Australian Championships the Schools accommodation is a major constraint).
On the way up, passed a sign in Young proclaiming that the Riot Act was read there on 14 July 1861 (presumably this was something to do with Lambing Flat). I'm guessing there isn't a similar sign in Frankston to mark the last time this was done in Australia (by a hastily-summoned JP standing on the bonnet of a police car with a megaphone), in 1979.
There is an Orange in California. Sadly, I found this out via a news report which dealt with the usual reason why American places you haven't heard of make the Australian news (although as US shootings go it was a relatively small one so it only made the website equivalent of a paragraph on page 17).
Still good to see a big national event happening (and the Queenslanders even made it) - early in the year there were questions being raised as to whether we should press on with it, but I'm definitely glad we did. (It helps that Easter is an event a relatively late call can be made on, whereas for an Australian Championships the Schools accommodation is a major constraint).
On the way up, passed a sign in Young proclaiming that the Riot Act was read there on 14 July 1861 (presumably this was something to do with Lambing Flat). I'm guessing there isn't a similar sign in Frankston to mark the last time this was done in Australia (by a hastily-summoned JP standing on the bonnet of a police car with a megaphone), in 1979.
There is an Orange in California. Sadly, I found this out via a news report which dealt with the usual reason why American places you haven't heard of make the Australian news (although as US shootings go it was a relatively small one so it only made the website equivalent of a paragraph on page 17).