Orienteering 1:00:00 [2] ****
shoes: UK Gear PT03 trail
Waggaroos training weekend at Beechworth. Placing controls at Mt Pilot for tomorrow's exercise. Unfortunately, regrowth after fires some years back was very heavy so decided to cut it short. Also decided to move this afternoon's exercises to The Gorge. A relocation drill when you can't see anything probably wouldn't work that well!
Orienteering 45:00 [2] ****
shoes: UK Gear PT03 trail
Waggaroos training weekend: relocation exercises in small groups in The Gorge at Beechworth. I worked with our least experienced group, so we just walked and talked a lot about reading the terrain and maintaining map contact. I think they all got something out of it.
We also placed our control for the American Pie relay.
Orienteering race 14:00 [4] **** 1.5 km (9:20 / km)
shoes: UK Gear PT03 trail
Very warm and we were keen to get back and have a swim at La Trobe so we did a variation on the American Pie relay, with each group starting together but on a different control (only 4 in total). My group didn't win but we weren't last either - good fun!
Back to La Trobe at Beechworth for a swim and then some social time and dinner before the Night O!
I had the notebook and a projector so I showed a few training related items on route choice and course setting. In keeping with the "relocation" theme, I showed the GPS animation of Rob Preston's infamous run at last years QLD champs! Went down very well and just emphasised that even the elite make mistakes, sometime BIG ones :-)
Orienteering race 24:20 [4] * 2.5 km (9:44 / km)
shoes: UK Gear PT03 trail
Night O around La Trobe Beechworth campus on the 2003 Aust Sprint map. Great course and although we have used it before, it can still be difficult at night. Managed a king-sized stuff up going from 9 to 10, via 12 and 11!