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Sunday Jun 26, 2016 #
11 AM
Run race ((orienteering)) 41:55 [4] *** 5.8 km (7:14 / km) +160m 6:21 / km
spiked:16/17c
Melbourne Bush-O at Tikalara Park at Templestowe, a new venue for me in an orienteering sense (although the bike path on the west edge of the map was occasionally at the far end of long runs from Heidelberg). Seemed pretty close to the suburbs but the deer which charged past the assembly area before I started felt otherwise....
Bit of a mixed bag today - most controls fairly technically easy (though a couple of interesting ones in some erosion detail), some open bush, some not-so-open bush (best avoided), some small tracks and some open land. Also had to cross Mullum Mullum Creek twice; it was pretty high and definitely required getting wet. The track coming out of it on #2 was also exceedingly muddy and slippery and didn't seem to fit the map that well, which made me momentarily confused as to whether I'd come far enough, my only mistake of the day (although a couple of my route choices were possibly sub-optimal).
As is often the case with these events, coming off a long run on Saturday meant I wasn't at my freshest, but I did feel somewhat better than I sometimes do on these, especially in the second half. Still got blown away for speed in the flatter and more open areas and on the tracks (Max Dalheim managed to take 40 seconds out of me in the 425 metres between the last control and the finish). At the back of a close bunch.
Spent some of the afternoon trying to convert people to the cause in the northern reaches of Batman (or, more often, preaching to the converted). We do this with a list of the electoral roll by address (partly so we don't waste time knocking on doors of houses where no-one is enrolled), and I noticed that one of the people on the roll in our patch went by the name of Harsh Overseer. One might speculate that someone with that name might not think very much of unions (but we didn't find out because no-one was home at that address).
Bit of a mixed bag today - most controls fairly technically easy (though a couple of interesting ones in some erosion detail), some open bush, some not-so-open bush (best avoided), some small tracks and some open land. Also had to cross Mullum Mullum Creek twice; it was pretty high and definitely required getting wet. The track coming out of it on #2 was also exceedingly muddy and slippery and didn't seem to fit the map that well, which made me momentarily confused as to whether I'd come far enough, my only mistake of the day (although a couple of my route choices were possibly sub-optimal).
As is often the case with these events, coming off a long run on Saturday meant I wasn't at my freshest, but I did feel somewhat better than I sometimes do on these, especially in the second half. Still got blown away for speed in the flatter and more open areas and on the tracks (Max Dalheim managed to take 40 seconds out of me in the 425 metres between the last control and the finish). At the back of a close bunch.
Spent some of the afternoon trying to convert people to the cause in the northern reaches of Batman (or, more often, preaching to the converted). We do this with a list of the electoral roll by address (partly so we don't waste time knocking on doors of houses where no-one is enrolled), and I noticed that one of the people on the roll in our patch went by the name of Harsh Overseer. One might speculate that someone with that name might not think very much of unions (but we didn't find out because no-one was home at that address).