Training Log Archive: jennycas

A forested ridge in Canberra's south, with a stiff climb to the start but a really nice assembly area tucked under the pine trees all of 100m walk from the cars and with big-screen showing video footage from the forest and also GPS tracking from the WRE. First control was a danger downhillside leg but I found it cleanly, second one I dropped into the gully then climbed out when I should have just gone lower, as I came at it from too high. 4-5 was a bit of a slog through the thistles towards the trig point (should have stopped to look at the views) which set up the next steep downhill leg pretty well. Was tentative on the rubbly stuff but found it ok, was a bit low on 7, then crossing over the ridge to 8 suddenly thought I was running towards 9 (distracted by Bun & others who were doing so and who I hadn't noticed going to 8) and had to double back but thankfully 8-9 was a short leg. Seemed to drop & climb unnecessarily to 10 as well, the next couple were ok though slow, I left 13 on the wrong side of the creek and had to skirt some green and then it was the downhill run through the suburbs. A bit ashamed to be so slow and maybe lost 3 min to errors but it was a course which made good use of the area and I enjoyed it, even though I had a lot of difficulty reading the individual rock features on the map - they all seemed to blur into each other.

OA meetings afterwards seemed to go ok - neither the issues nor the attendees were as contentious as they sometimes can be.