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Thursday Dec 29, 2016 #
8 AM
orienteering race (Christmas 5-Days Day 3) 1:10:14 [3] 6.4 km (10:58 / km) +95m 10:13 / km
shoes: Inov8 ORoc 280
New O shoes time. And although they are half a size bigger than my old ones, it was just as much effort to wrestle my feet into them as usual. Decided the laces were improbably tight, so loosened them. Felt my heel chafing on the way to the start, so tightened them. Got halfway to control 3 and the excruciating pain under my right arch was unmanageable, so spent a couple of minutes loosening that shoe. By halfway round the course though, a blister was forming on the other heel even though I'd left that shoe tightened, and the rest of the course became a limp-jog. Clearly my feet are not the same size as each other...
As for the navigating, I actually quite like flat low-vis stuff, and the shade provided by the dense ti-trees (Leptospermum) meant it wasn't too hot. Did a couple of dumb overshootings at times though - some of them deliberate because I couldn't find an earlier singletrack through the green even though it was on the map, but overrunning the first control was not in my plan. I must have been about 30m away from it yet climbed up the embankment to avoid a patch of green, then came wrongly down a track too far south because I thought there was a track before the control when actually the mapped black line was a pipeline. Getting worse at reading the detail, I am :(
Favourite control was in an area of swampy paperbark tea tree (Melaleuca) which didn't currently have any water underfoot but instead a carpet of maidenhair ferns. This made up for all the gruesomely burned car wrecks out there, which give me the heebie-jeebies.
As for the navigating, I actually quite like flat low-vis stuff, and the shade provided by the dense ti-trees (Leptospermum) meant it wasn't too hot. Did a couple of dumb overshootings at times though - some of them deliberate because I couldn't find an earlier singletrack through the green even though it was on the map, but overrunning the first control was not in my plan. I must have been about 30m away from it yet climbed up the embankment to avoid a patch of green, then came wrongly down a track too far south because I thought there was a track before the control when actually the mapped black line was a pipeline. Getting worse at reading the detail, I am :(
Favourite control was in an area of swampy paperbark tea tree (Melaleuca) which didn't currently have any water underfoot but instead a carpet of maidenhair ferns. This made up for all the gruesomely burned car wrecks out there, which give me the heebie-jeebies.
12 PM
Note
We spent the afternoon driving to/from the Barrington Tops, which turned out to be 3 hours each way, because I had the thought that at 1300m it would be a bit cooler than the 40 degrees down in Cessnock. And indeed, up at the Gloucester Tops it was maybe even not quite 30. Plus there was still enough water in the river to make the Gloucester Falls worth the drive - and we saw a lyrebird. On a cooler day I'd have done the 8km loop walk around the sub-alpine plateau but in any case my blister said no. On the way down, at one of the many river fords, we had to let a herd of beautiful shaggy Highland cattle wade in/drink from the river.
Broke up the return journey with dinner at a defiantly unrenovated pub in Dungog, where my steak was overcooked (if that was medium rare, I'd hate to see well done) and G's schnitzel cost a whole $10 and it was even spelled correctly on the menu unlike the economically-lettered SNIZL I saw on a menu during our roadtrip.
Broke up the return journey with dinner at a defiantly unrenovated pub in Dungog, where my steak was overcooked (if that was medium rare, I'd hate to see well done) and G's schnitzel cost a whole $10 and it was even spelled correctly on the menu unlike the economically-lettered SNIZL I saw on a menu during our roadtrip.