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Wednesday Jan 27, 2010 #
Run 1:00:00 [2] 6.0 km (10:00 / km)
I woke up tired and unfortunately stayed that way today - and therefore decided to walk at street orienteering at Blind Creek tonight. Nothing to report.
I'm not normally one for complaining about maps or event organisation, as I know the effort that is involved in both and appreciate the volunteerism. However, I have been studying last night's map and have decided that the area near checkpoint 1 wasn't mapped properly - the inbound lane of the freeway was left off. This meant that when you went down a short street on the opposite side (east side) of the freeway to 1, you came across the inbound lane of the freeway (uncrossable of course) rather than to a pond and creek as marked on the map. The pond was in fact between the inbound and the outbound lanes. And hence I explain my poor performance in last night's street-O.
Footnote - an example of how tired I was yesterday was my trip home on the train. I got on at Parliament and luckily didn't get a seat - or I would have gone to sleep. After a while I noticed a friend on the train - and spent a while trying to work out why he was going to Belgrave or Lilydale - eventually deciding that he had no reason whatsoever to be there. It then occured to me that I might be on the wrong train and looked out at the sign at East Richmond. I WAS ON THE GLEN WAVERLEY TRAIN - and jumped off just in time at Burnley!
I'm not normally one for complaining about maps or event organisation, as I know the effort that is involved in both and appreciate the volunteerism. However, I have been studying last night's map and have decided that the area near checkpoint 1 wasn't mapped properly - the inbound lane of the freeway was left off. This meant that when you went down a short street on the opposite side (east side) of the freeway to 1, you came across the inbound lane of the freeway (uncrossable of course) rather than to a pond and creek as marked on the map. The pond was in fact between the inbound and the outbound lanes. And hence I explain my poor performance in last night's street-O.
Footnote - an example of how tired I was yesterday was my trip home on the train. I got on at Parliament and luckily didn't get a seat - or I would have gone to sleep. After a while I noticed a friend on the train - and spent a while trying to work out why he was going to Belgrave or Lilydale - eventually deciding that he had no reason whatsoever to be there. It then occured to me that I might be on the wrong train and looked out at the sign at East Richmond. I WAS ON THE GLEN WAVERLEY TRAIN - and jumped off just in time at Burnley!