orienteering (Aust relays) 1:00:00 [3]
shoes: Inov8 Oroc spikes
Moondyne Rd, just over the hill from yesterday's event, on a much wetter day. The women's race (at least) had a funny configuration with a route choice option out of the start being back through the assembly area and up the hill through the carpark and toilet queue. There were a couple of controls in the rocky green then back out to the farmland for a running leg and repeat; rather like yesterday except that the grass was longer and soggier.
Zoe ran first for the Arrows and was a casualty of the fact that the women's course started out at 180 degrees to the men's, something which it took quite a few women a little while to catch on to. Fern ran second and valiantly struggled around half her course in the rain before calling it quits and coming back just before I was going to head out in the 3rd leg mass start. So my heart wasn't really in it and I made some shocking mistakes, at least partly because the bubble in my compass had returned and my bearings were all over the place.
Ballsed up 1 by being so near and yet so far, left 2 at 90 degrees in the wrong direction and couldn't make out which fence I'd crossed, went up the wrong gully on 3 (but I wasn't alone). Had to walk the sodden hillside over near the OOB crop as my legs just wouldn't lift. Coming back towards the spectator control I found Liv sitting by the track with a nice Newcastle lady watching over her. Turned out she had done her ankle quite badly and been helped to hobble 400m to the track by this lady and a Dubbo friend who had gone back to the finish for the ambulance. There wasn't much helpful I could do once the ambulance turned up apart from taking Liv's SI card back to the finish - since I was going straight there I didn't bother finishing my own course.
Most successful thing I did today was managing in the afternoon (despite a power failure due to the feral weather) to get Blair's O gear washed and dried in time for him to put it (and himself) on a plane to the other side of the world, and making a salad to take to Richard & Nicole's for dinner. As a bonus, I didn't have any dirty O gear either when I got home on Monday :)