Training Log Archive: slow-twitch

Mt Vic for the n-hundredth time, but the course did include a couple of corners of the map that aren't often used and generally in the opposite direction when they are, so at least a little bit fresh. Fairly rough orienteering - not all that focussed and was either reading too much or too little detail and rarely got into any sort of flow but still mostly error free. Except over-ran on the track below 11, but recognised that pretty quickly; a little bit of in-circle trouble at 14 not recognising the dark green next to the control for what it was; and 15 somehow got onto completely the wrong path - by the time I realised it was easiest to carry on with a very roundabout route! And I may have been wrong about the fake cold - by halfway around I was feeling like I expected to during yesterday's run.

Zealandia with Magnus and Caspar. Typing that I suddenly feel I was letting the side down in the exotic name stakes. No tuatara to trip over but Caspar did almost stomp on a robin soon after complaining about not having seen any birds. Didn't feel at all sick or even particularly snotty - so apparently it's a fake cold that's been keeping me quiet lately.

Checking operational signs around the boundaries of the Orongorongo ZIP block were still in place and unvandalised. Butchers Track, Cattle Ridge (including sidetrip through the pines to the south corner of the block) and down to Turere bridge before returning along the highway. If I'd been feeling better and being more active lately, might have considered doing this as a run, but probably good thing I didn't: the sidetrip bit added more than I expected and the whole thing would have been well over 2 hours, which even at the best of times is past my fun/pain threshold point. Chances of getting the ankle down all the rooty, rocky downhills unscathed would have been minimal too.