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Saturday Dec 10, 2011 #
8 AM
Run ((terrain)) 43:00 [3] 7.0 km (6:09 / km)
OA Conference weekend, which traditionally starts for me by taking advantage of the family home's location next to some bush to do some terrain running. This time round I went across to Black Mountain to do it as the long grass on Aranda Hill looked ferocious (discovering in the process that my Achilles doesn't like uphill starts at the moment). Not too bad once going although uphills a bit unsure.
6 PM
Run ((street-O)) 47:00 [3] * 8.8 km (5:20 / km)
spiked:13/18c
The OA Conference event, combined with a street-O (Melbourne style, although with enough off-road to get a decent number of grass seeds into my socks) around Bruce and the AIS. It was probably close to the least important event I'll run this year, which is just as well because I combined more technical misadventures into one course tonight than I've had in the last few years in Melbourne put together.
It's never a good sign when no-one else goes your way from the mass start. My route choice did indeed turn out to be disastrous but not for any reason that could be determined from the map, something I found out on the first leg when two unmapped locked gates meant an unscheduled 300-400 metres around the indoor arena. Twice more this direction of travel fed me into uncrossable fence 'traps' (once a gate at the far end was locked, once the control circle position suggested the control was on the other side of the fence to where it was in reality); neither would have been an issue going in the reverse direction.
I wasn't feeling brilliant, and with three or four minutes already blown in the first five controls decided to turn this into a training run, but my mind must still have been steaming because I did something I haven't done in 17 years of Melbourne street-Os and missed a control - and celebrated by doing it again not too far down the road. I didn't realise either of these until a point where the least inefficient way to get it was a 1.5k out-and-back at the end of the course. Motivation was definitely an issue at this point. Plodded home to swap tales of epic misadventure.
Bruce did 2.5k (and 20 minutes) less than I did. A lot of people will have claimed my scalp for the first time tonight (Jenny is definitely one of them).
It's never a good sign when no-one else goes your way from the mass start. My route choice did indeed turn out to be disastrous but not for any reason that could be determined from the map, something I found out on the first leg when two unmapped locked gates meant an unscheduled 300-400 metres around the indoor arena. Twice more this direction of travel fed me into uncrossable fence 'traps' (once a gate at the far end was locked, once the control circle position suggested the control was on the other side of the fence to where it was in reality); neither would have been an issue going in the reverse direction.
I wasn't feeling brilliant, and with three or four minutes already blown in the first five controls decided to turn this into a training run, but my mind must still have been steaming because I did something I haven't done in 17 years of Melbourne street-Os and missed a control - and celebrated by doing it again not too far down the road. I didn't realise either of these until a point where the least inefficient way to get it was a 1.5k out-and-back at the end of the course. Motivation was definitely an issue at this point. Plodded home to swap tales of epic misadventure.
Bruce did 2.5k (and 20 minutes) less than I did. A lot of people will have claimed my scalp for the first time tonight (Jenny is definitely one of them).