Run 53:00 [3] 7.0 km (7:34 / km)
Went to a "novelty" Street-O event in Hawthorn tonight. Checkpoints 5,10,15 and 20 were worth 2 checkpoints each so you had to plan your course carefully to gain the benefit of this. However, despite this, a lot of people still went a considerable distance further than the ideal route. A working knowledge of pythagoras would have been useful when selecting the ideal route between some checkpoints. Lots of people were there including Susannah and Zoe (in her first orienteering event, I think).
I ran for 30 minutes but then had to walk. I have a problem with my right leg - some sort of combination of a back problem, a past torn anterior cruciat ligament and a history of sprained ankles. I've had some fairly simplistic diagnosis in the past - a pulled hamstring - but I think it is more than this. Its been a problem for some years, so certainly isn't an acute issue. It is annoying in so far as it stops me comfortably running long distances.
Regarding photos in peculiar places. The principal of a school where I used to teach once visited Bailey's Winery at Glenrowan (before I moved to Benalla). He came back and announced that there was a photo of me on the wall. It was a cutting from the back page of the Age from about 1 year previously - a nice picture of me kayaking down the Yarra with a big smile. However it did contain the unfortunate, but true, quote "Prue Dobbin, a teacher at a Melbourne girls school, says 'I live for the weekends' ". Just the thing you want your employer to see! To this day I am still mystified as to why the winery, with which I had no connection, had this cutting on its wall.