Orienteering 1:11:27 [4] 6.78 km (10:32 / km)
Day 2 - Frazzled Again. After a long rocky downhill walk to the very social start (Hawke08 and Zootrio had the same start time as me) I set off with (horrors) the same problem as yesterday – where the hell was no 1? So a bit of floundering around (not as bad as yesterday) and then all was OK. This was much more open country compared with yesterday and the yellows were very yellow – flat, smooth and open – making for fast running. Again the greens were very green. I was feeling fairly pleased with myself spiking everything from 2-10 (though they seemed much easier than Day1), then we went further into the bush. After a long bush leg, I became slightly disoriented at the fenceline (which was ridiculous as we had passed this on the way to the start). Uncle Jim came by and kindly told me that I was by the fence and this should help. Of course it did and I took a bearing back to my control. I think I was going well until then but then due to brain fade lost it on the last 3 controls – then taking a long route that went through dark green (which meant impenetrable bush where I had to climb up a tree to get up a cliff) – all taking too much time – then home. A slight improvement on yesterday's placing (thank goodness). By now I was getting used to the WA bush – learning to avoid any green like the plague and even avoid any white as that should also have been green. I went up a few places but think that the first control and the last very bad route choices were my downfall.
I wore runners and Bruce's thick socks today – and feet were good. I felt almost human at the end . Afterwards I met some WA AP bloggers including the very cute Tooms Two.