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Saturday Mar 15, 2014 #
9 AM
swimming 33:00 [3] 1.0 km (33:00 / km)
Didn't hurry to get up this morning after some lightning-flash-to-thunder (shut up dog!) second-counting in the night. Pond was pleasant and coffee/fruit toast afterwards beneficial.
5 PM
rogaining race (Twilightgaine) 3:59:50 [4] 35.0 km (6:51 / km)
shoes: Asics GT-2000
Morialta And More - a fairly apt name for a map which appeared to be about 2/3 hills, 1/3 suburbs. Zara and I ruled out the drop-and-return from Moores Rd to Montacute Rd fairly early in the planning stages and decided that we'd be better off seeing how much time we had left in the suburbs after going more directly up to Norton Summit. The first hill was a killer, with lots of teams passing me and Z getting a bit anxious, but from there up to Deep View and then the Rocky Ridge track I slowly warmed up and by the time we got to Moores Rd we were passing teams - not that many teams seemed to have gone that way. We kept encountering the McInerneys although they didn't do the extra loop down into the top of 3rd Falls, and then we saw quite a few teams when we got to Colonial Drive/Norton Summit, at which time it started to rain rather heavily (raincoats? what raincoats?).
Headed down Norton Summit Rd and Teringie Drive (rather than the southern rim of the park) and got into the suburbs with about 2 hours to spare, then proceeded to spend the next 20km picking off controls at an average of one every 7 min, which I had worked out that we needed to do if we were to get all but one on the flat and be back in time. Which we were, but it wasn't the easiest map to read in the dark so I was memorizing legs under streetlights and once my map memory nearly got me in trouble although thankfully there was a shortcut through a church carpark :) At the last control we saw the Normans (father and daughter team) and ran in with them; my legs died up the last hill and the finish layout was a bit of a schemozzle so we nearly didn't find the table to hand our control cards in in time, but eventually did so with 10 seconds to spare!
3rd overall and the top 2 teams contained the sort of long-distance trail-running guys who have done Yurrebilla in the past. Even at my fittest I don't think I'd have managed the extra 100 or so points required to get near them.
Headed down Norton Summit Rd and Teringie Drive (rather than the southern rim of the park) and got into the suburbs with about 2 hours to spare, then proceeded to spend the next 20km picking off controls at an average of one every 7 min, which I had worked out that we needed to do if we were to get all but one on the flat and be back in time. Which we were, but it wasn't the easiest map to read in the dark so I was memorizing legs under streetlights and once my map memory nearly got me in trouble although thankfully there was a shortcut through a church carpark :) At the last control we saw the Normans (father and daughter team) and ran in with them; my legs died up the last hill and the finish layout was a bit of a schemozzle so we nearly didn't find the table to hand our control cards in in time, but eventually did so with 10 seconds to spare!
3rd overall and the top 2 teams contained the sort of long-distance trail-running guys who have done Yurrebilla in the past. Even at my fittest I don't think I'd have managed the extra 100 or so points required to get near them.