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Saturday Oct 15, 2016 #
12 PM
Rogaine 8:03:00 [2] 28.0 km (17:15 / km) +1100m 14:25 / km
Victorian Rogaining Championships with Jenny at Korweinguboora. The plan was for this to be my first "proper" 24 - I've twice entered 24s during my early 1990s partnership with Ian McKenzie but we didn't go all night either time (once planned, once unplanned).
Given the way my calf had felt post-run yesterday I wasn't especially confident, but it was OK starting out walking, and during such running as we were doing (basically only downhill on tracks). Terrain on east side of the road was much as expected - gullies generally thick, other areas a bit of a mixed bag with some open areas but a lot of what we'd call light green. (The southeast end of the 1981 Korweinguboora O map, which took in a few controls of this section, was 100% light green or thicker, but there were some more open bits, usually where there had been burning).
66 to (near) 79 was a downhill road run. This may (or may not) have set my calf off, because it worsened significantly on the way out of 79, to the extent that I was limping noticeably when walking and couldn't push off running at all. Whilst I could tolerate it at this level, and was OK to continue for the time being, I wasn't willing to take the risk that it might break down altogether on the far side of the map in the middle of the night, so we decided to plan to come in overnight (making it more of a social rogaine in a sense). Got in just on dusk.
No navigational issues of any consequence (I was just about to have one coming out of 74 when Jenny pulled me up).
Given the way my calf had felt post-run yesterday I wasn't especially confident, but it was OK starting out walking, and during such running as we were doing (basically only downhill on tracks). Terrain on east side of the road was much as expected - gullies generally thick, other areas a bit of a mixed bag with some open areas but a lot of what we'd call light green. (The southeast end of the 1981 Korweinguboora O map, which took in a few controls of this section, was 100% light green or thicker, but there were some more open bits, usually where there had been burning).
66 to (near) 79 was a downhill road run. This may (or may not) have set my calf off, because it worsened significantly on the way out of 79, to the extent that I was limping noticeably when walking and couldn't push off running at all. Whilst I could tolerate it at this level, and was OK to continue for the time being, I wasn't willing to take the risk that it might break down altogether on the far side of the map in the middle of the night, so we decided to plan to come in overnight (making it more of a social rogaine in a sense). Got in just on dusk.
No navigational issues of any consequence (I was just about to have one coming out of 74 when Jenny pulled me up).