Training Log Archive: Mess Engineer

Event: QBIII
 

First event of QBIII.
Nominal 1.8 km and 12 controls.

Screwed up 2nd last control and was ahead of Shane prior to that. There were 2 other controls in the ditch and I visited all 3 on my way from the bottom to the top.
Problem was a simple basic one - I misread white as forest and orange as clearing back to front. Shane's answer to 11 was simple - run se until you run out of forest whilst I mucked around.

Edit
Looking at splits came 9th of 46 competitors.
Prior to screw-up at #11 was coming 4th overall!

Spent longer pulling hundreds of farmers friends out of pants and socks than it took to run the actual race!!!!

C • Welcome 1

From hotel to Coles and back to get milk and bread

Hard 4 Day 1 - Splits

Yet again bailed on 2nd half due to low motivation levels (plus installing $200 K of equipment at work this week).

Think its been 2 weeks since I went to this due to various issues ... and was struggle street as a result.

Dropped weights back and arms/shoulders still shaking 30 minutes later as I am typing this.

Around Mayfield

Around Mayfield at lunch.

Novelty Bush-O Pairs event.
Back at "The Range" Map.
The taped position of Control 11 had been passed about 3 times on the training day on Saturday so finding this control by the watercourse was simple!

Lots of pivot controls 1/4/7, 8/25, 9/13/16, 17/20. 21/24
Partnered up with Rockman.

My leg 1-2-3-4
Rockman 4-5-6-7-8
My leg 9-10-11-12-13
Rockman 14-15-16-17
My leg 18-19-20-21
Rockman 22-23-24-25
Joint leg 26-27-FInish

Having shorter legs meant I could push harder and have a rest in between.

Enjoyed this more than last year as despite the mass starts (which I hate due to it being a following contest) the pivot at the first control (and the Map A and B with different legs) meant I was only following for the first 3 controls.

Padawan partnered up with tinytoes.

Control collection with padawan.

Glendale Walking Track.
From Glendale TAFE to Wallsend and return.
Crossed underneath yet another major road via a tunnel ... just this one you could stand up in.

Rain timing was perfect as held off for entire day and then started bucketing down on the Expressway on the way home (coincendentally just about when driving over the Rocla drains crawled through the day before - which would have been a bit wetter!)

Brings total for weekend to more than 30 km.

C • Tunnels 3