Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Main (non-work) activity today was organising the street-O, on a map which straddled the Eastern Freeway at Doncaster/Mont Albert North. The course design seemed to be well-received but I'm really annoyed with myself for putting a control in the wrong spot - two identically configured track junctions 40 metres apart with seats in the same position (and even with the same plaque). That will teach me to put controls out from a different direction to that from which I originally checked the sites. Didn't seem to upset too many people, perhaps because most approached it from the direction where they came to the control on the way to where it was supposed to be.

There are a lot of power poles in this part of the world which are showing their age - almost every one seemed to have some extra supporting structures (which in turn makes it harder to get a cable around them for the controls). Perhaps it was appropriate that in between putting out controls my ABC listening consisted of people talking about allegedly inadequate electricity infrastructure in South Australia. I guess once Hazelwood closes Victorians, too, can look forward to a conga line of conservatives blaming renewable energy for the blackout every time someone prangs a car into a power pole.