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Saturday Mar 26, 2011 #
5 PM
Run 1:02:00 [3] 11.8 km (5:15 / km) +380m 4:32 / km
It's the Gippsland Field Days weekend but not as I usually know it, as instead of our usual base at Neerim South I was staying at Kathryn and Rob's place in Trafalgar. It's not hard to work out why Rob was so strong on the big climbs up Ainslie a couple of weeks ago - any decent long run from Trafalgar involves climbing the escarpment south of town, which depending on where you do it involves anywhere from 200 to 350 metres climb.
Headed out after a day's work into the Moe South plantation (used for what must have been a pretty tough MTBO three weeks ago). Essentially uphill for the first half and downhill for the second, apart from a brief reversal halfway on both. Not easy but reasonably happy with the way I handled it for the most part. Insides a bit shaken up towards the end. The eucalypt plantation area looked surprisingly runnable and could, with good course-setting, support local club events if one became established (although Kathryn tells me the trees get felled every 10 years on average).
The field days were much as usual (three climate sceptics today, but no aggro ones). Also managed to pick up a few Gippsland goodies, hoping that I wouldn't be noticed because the stand selling them was next to the Citizens Electoral Council. I'm not exactly Public Enemy Number One in CEC-land (that position is reserved for Prince Philip), but I do probably rank higher in that list than I do in the current IOF world rankings. One spinoff of the CEC's presence is that the Scientologists are now only the second nuttiest people with a stand at the Field Days.
(The DPI stand, which we were near, had a big section on a cause close to the heart of the orienteering community - getting rid of blackberries).
Headed out after a day's work into the Moe South plantation (used for what must have been a pretty tough MTBO three weeks ago). Essentially uphill for the first half and downhill for the second, apart from a brief reversal halfway on both. Not easy but reasonably happy with the way I handled it for the most part. Insides a bit shaken up towards the end. The eucalypt plantation area looked surprisingly runnable and could, with good course-setting, support local club events if one became established (although Kathryn tells me the trees get felled every 10 years on average).
The field days were much as usual (three climate sceptics today, but no aggro ones). Also managed to pick up a few Gippsland goodies, hoping that I wouldn't be noticed because the stand selling them was next to the Citizens Electoral Council. I'm not exactly Public Enemy Number One in CEC-land (that position is reserved for Prince Philip), but I do probably rank higher in that list than I do in the current IOF world rankings. One spinoff of the CEC's presence is that the Scientologists are now only the second nuttiest people with a stand at the Field Days.
(The DPI stand, which we were near, had a big section on a cause close to the heart of the orienteering community - getting rid of blackberries).