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Saturday Jan 2, 2016 #
9 AM
Run ((orienteering)) 1:02:00 [3] 8.8 km (7:03 / km) +225m 6:15 / km
Back to orienteering training for the first time for a while, in a place I haven't been before - Lucky Hit, venue for the 1986 Australian Relays. I haven't been here before, not having run the 1986 Australian Relays - back then the relays were a club affair and my then club, Northside Navigators, suffered from a severe shortage of juniors, or even elites. (Part of the impetus for the 1989 merger which formed Bushflyers was that Michael and James Derlacki wanted to run relays with me, a team which produced a second in M20 in 1990).
The section we were running on was about a 1 sq km section of mature pine forest, without a lot on the ground apart from some areas of pine regrowth (and, in a definite asset for a summer training venue, no grass seeds). We were running 12-year-old courses on a 30-year-old map, with a lot of small earthworks and rocks, many of which probably wouldn't be mapped today (and 30 years of erosion had put paid to some of the earthworks), but navigation was still perfectly feasible; the good visibility helped. (I don't think it was as good 30 years ago, and recall some suggestions at the time that the name of the map was apt).
Took a while to get myself back into the terrain, and my back was a bit iffy at times, but still nice to get out there. Quite a cool morning by recent standards. Did a certain amount of back-road exploring in the Adelaide Hills on the way home.
The section we were running on was about a 1 sq km section of mature pine forest, without a lot on the ground apart from some areas of pine regrowth (and, in a definite asset for a summer training venue, no grass seeds). We were running 12-year-old courses on a 30-year-old map, with a lot of small earthworks and rocks, many of which probably wouldn't be mapped today (and 30 years of erosion had put paid to some of the earthworks), but navigation was still perfectly feasible; the good visibility helped. (I don't think it was as good 30 years ago, and recall some suggestions at the time that the name of the map was apt).
Took a while to get myself back into the terrain, and my back was a bit iffy at times, but still nice to get out there. Quite a cool morning by recent standards. Did a certain amount of back-road exploring in the Adelaide Hills on the way home.