Training Log Archive: jennycas

This was lots of fun, despite or perhaps because of the fact that I am fairly bad at night-O, but I wasn't the only one running around like a headless chook, partly because the map-to-ground correlation of the prickly acacia thickets was less than 100%. And also I'm not absolutely certain that the pivot control was in precisely the same place on ground and on map (the course planner said it was "within the circle"). Course structure went like this: run to pivot, do 2 of the 4 bush loops, run all the way across the suburbs to the school for a couple of controls, get yelled at by guys on quadbike within the school, run tracks all the way back to the pivot, do 2 more bush loops, back across to the school and get offered a beer by the same guys (originally I'd assumed they were security guards but now I think they were gardeners maybe - and less than sober). Despite the fact that I got groined by a scotch thistle, calved by a blackberry bush and somehow ended up traversing the entire interior length of an Acacia paradoxa thicket instead of going around its outside, this was still very enjoyable and I'm glad that I bailed on work at 7pm.