orienteering (East Point) 46:10 [3] 4.4 km (10:30 / km)
shoes: Asics GT-2000
Australia Day free event, hosted by TEO, advertised in the local paper, and assembling within one of the gun turrets at East Point Reserve. I was impressed by how many complete newcomers turned up; families with young kids and also athletic types who had already completed the 5km fun run at 7am. I explained orienteering to a few of these people (admitting in the process that yes, I myself had actually tried orienteering before) and then trotted around the longest course, making hard work of it not least because of the constant dive-bombing by plovers when in any open areas. I enjoyed the linear clearings in the mangrove section (which could have been problematic at high tide a couple of hours before), although was sort of looking over my shoulder for anything toothy, and slightly relieved to get into the open past Lake Alexander (can't believe they hold the swim leg of triathlons in there) until the plovers swooped again. Final few controls were in the monsoon forest and without a compass I took the process of hunting for a small fenced enclosure in the 'jungle' fairly slow-and-cautious-ly but this didn't stop me from making a substantial parallel error having left a track at the wrong bend - oops.
Good fun course and I've always wanted to run on this map, so my curiosity was satisfied.