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Tuesday Oct 4, 2016 #
7 AM
Swimming 37:00 [2] 1.0 km (37:00 / km)
Original thought was pool running at Fitzroy, but the appearance on the radar of what one of my colleagues described on the ABC as a "chunky" line of showers convinced me to swim indoors instead (the indoor pool at Northcote is too shallow for pool running). Ended up fairly routine, and the rain had cleared out by the time I finished for the ride into work.
I'm currently working on a report on the extreme rainfalls of the last few months in general and September in particular (highlight so far - Hillston's May-September rainfall broke the previous record by 188 millimetres). I've talked a bit in recent days about 1980s Canberra-Gold Coast road trips and some familiar names (from road signs off to the side of the Newell) popped up in my searching of site lists, including North Star, Come-by-Chance and Terry Hie Hie. A more appropriately named site in the current situation was Forbes (Muddy Water) - won't be holding my breath waiting for a September report from that location, a farm about 15km west of town. (There also is, or rather was - it closed in 1969 - a site called Tin Tin, somewhere between Balranald and Lake Mungo).
A national carnival often brings the emergence of new stars, this year most obviously Angus Haines and Caroline Pigerre (whose Schools run was the most obvious standout, but I was actually more impressed with her Australian Relays run). Three other names to note for future reference, all of them in their first year of orienteering - in fact I believe that for two of them the selection trial was their first bush event - were Haydn Tang, sixth in M14 on Saturday, and Tia and Noelle Chitty in W14 and W12 respectively. The Chitty girls are already scarily fast with 3k times which I would think would be national-class for their age group. Quite a few people introduced Haydn (whose mathematical credentials are also very considerable) to me as the "next Blair", although from what I know about him the next William Hawkins is possibly closer to the mark.
I'm currently working on a report on the extreme rainfalls of the last few months in general and September in particular (highlight so far - Hillston's May-September rainfall broke the previous record by 188 millimetres). I've talked a bit in recent days about 1980s Canberra-Gold Coast road trips and some familiar names (from road signs off to the side of the Newell) popped up in my searching of site lists, including North Star, Come-by-Chance and Terry Hie Hie. A more appropriately named site in the current situation was Forbes (Muddy Water) - won't be holding my breath waiting for a September report from that location, a farm about 15km west of town. (There also is, or rather was - it closed in 1969 - a site called Tin Tin, somewhere between Balranald and Lake Mungo).
A national carnival often brings the emergence of new stars, this year most obviously Angus Haines and Caroline Pigerre (whose Schools run was the most obvious standout, but I was actually more impressed with her Australian Relays run). Three other names to note for future reference, all of them in their first year of orienteering - in fact I believe that for two of them the selection trial was their first bush event - were Haydn Tang, sixth in M14 on Saturday, and Tia and Noelle Chitty in W14 and W12 respectively. The Chitty girls are already scarily fast with 3k times which I would think would be national-class for their age group. Quite a few people introduced Haydn (whose mathematical credentials are also very considerable) to me as the "next Blair", although from what I know about him the next William Hawkins is possibly closer to the mark.