Training Log Archive: TheInvisibleLog

Checking control sites and courses in the Kooyoora "Bermuda Triangle". Put the Garmin on auto pause" so it started recording when I broke into a run and stopped when I did. It recorded 90 minutes of the four hours out there. I had no trouble locating the 'hard' control sites. However, when I started running the novice course, I became somewhat confused. In the end, I had to use the rocks to locate where the track used to be. Needless to say, the novice and moderate courses are back at drawing board stage. Some lovely hard control sites are tagged. Indeed, all sites are lovingly hand crafted.

Event: Bendigo Orientshow
 

Orientshow Day

I learnt many lessons running this event last year. I wrote a newsletter article about those lessons.
I learnt only one new lesson this year: read the lessons I learnt the year before!
Failing to remember past mistakes, I was up till 1.30 manually creating Hagaby and orientshow variations on condes and then importing them to OE2003. Hopefully the next versions of these two programs will talk to each other a little better.
The event seemed to go well, though I was really running close to the wind much of the day. The last 7 controls went out in the 15 minutes before the first start. Only had a small turnup and thats probably a good thing. I think iwould have been overwhelmed with a large number of runners. Highlight of the day was either the first leg of the the classic, or the last povot control of the orientshow. The long leg presented a routechoice dilemma that only two of the 14 runners unravelled. Most ground their way along the red line through the mining terrain. Jools and Jymbo went to the southern extremity of the map for a fats run along the track. That won the race for Jymbo, and Jools ahd a very respectable time as well.
The last pivot of the last orientshow pivot was entertaining. By that stage most runners had checked 60+ controls over 7.5 straight line course kilometres of complex mining terrain with lost of tough ups and downs and rough underfoot conditions. Needless to say, quite a few were tired and under pressure. The result was surprising confusion for some in a pretty simple area. Best route choice to Laurina who went on a straight line through blackberries. See photos.

From Orientshow 2009

Jymbo coming in for his win.

From Orientshow 2009

Toph in descent mode.

From Orientshow 2009

Laurina the worse for wear... afte rthe first race. That was before she went through here... you can just catch a glimpse of here emerging in this shot.

From Orientshow 2009

That merits recognition!

From Orientshow 2009

Bruce on the comeback trail.

From Orientshow 2009

Roch

From Orientshow 2009

Toph
He doesn't know it, but he has just missed a control and it will cost him the win for the day.

From Orientshow 2009

Birchy

From Orientshow 2009

Laurina... and yes, blackberries.

C • Orientshow 2

Easy run in the Welsford whilst listening to Slovakian folk music. Conclusion. Slovakia is indeed on the wrong side of the carpathian mountains.

A standard welsford circuit. For the first time in a few weeks, my body felt it liked running after the initial warm up. Took it at tempo pace.

A few laps of Lake Neangar. Started slow, sped up, finished slow. I'll let you imagine the mid segment was 4 k in distance.