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Saturday Dec 31, 2016 #
8 AM
orienteering race (Christmas 5-Days Day 5) 44:00 [3]
shoes: Asics GT-2000
Probably should not have fronted up for this, given how painfully my blistered heel was keeping me awake in the night, but layered with 3 Band-Aids and in running shoes at a flat jog along the road it seemed manageable. So I stubbornly went out on course - and promptly made a lot of mistakes because I was concentrating too much on where I was putting my feet in a vain attempt to avoid further heel chafing, and not enough on my bearings, so had some real shockers, missing track junctions and going up/down wrong creeks. Final straw was on 9 where I still don't understand how I ended up too far east, but the 1: 7500 scale may have had something to do with it.
I started to realise that if I took any longer on course I might run out of time to go back to the motel for a shower before checking out, and I might jeopardise any chance of being capable of doing a longer run when it cools down in a couple of days' time. And also I couldn't face the thought of the long leg across the long-grassed area just to come back across the long-grassed area , so I called it quits and walked slowly and painfully back to the finish. I don't like to be a quitter :(
We lunched in and walked around the waterfront at Brooklyn by the Mooney Mooney crossing. I couldn't convince G to catch the little ferry out to Dangar Island from there but we did cross on the vehicle ferry at Berowra Waters before making our way to Penrith via Arcadia & Cattai. 9pm fireworks display at Panthers wasn't too bad viewed from a hilltop a couple km away; however, everyone local seemed to have their own personal fireworks stash and to be setting them off in the creek at the end of the street. I expect this activity to be repeated in about 20 minutes' time when the clock strikes 12 and all the dogs to go slightly troppo as a result.
I started to realise that if I took any longer on course I might run out of time to go back to the motel for a shower before checking out, and I might jeopardise any chance of being capable of doing a longer run when it cools down in a couple of days' time. And also I couldn't face the thought of the long leg across the long-grassed area just to come back across the long-grassed area , so I called it quits and walked slowly and painfully back to the finish. I don't like to be a quitter :(
We lunched in and walked around the waterfront at Brooklyn by the Mooney Mooney crossing. I couldn't convince G to catch the little ferry out to Dangar Island from there but we did cross on the vehicle ferry at Berowra Waters before making our way to Penrith via Arcadia & Cattai. 9pm fireworks display at Panthers wasn't too bad viewed from a hilltop a couple km away; however, everyone local seemed to have their own personal fireworks stash and to be setting them off in the creek at the end of the street. I expect this activity to be repeated in about 20 minutes' time when the clock strikes 12 and all the dogs to go slightly troppo as a result.