Run ((orienteering)) 55:00 [3] *** 7.0 km (7:51 / km)
spiked:22/24c
With licence now given to drive somewhere to do exercise (as long as it's within 5km), I decided that Eaglemont Flats was a worthwhile new option for a Saturday morning, doing a course left over from an event in, I think, 2017 or so. Struggled to get much fluency in the terrain on a day of sleety showers, though starting to improve in that respect later on, and probably should have brought my compass for a couple of legs across the flat bit in the southwest. Became quite enjoyable later on. Lots of mud, especially close to the river, which was quite high even before the rain in the afternoon (one control site was in the water).
It's striking how much the track network (mostly unofficial MTB tracks) has changed over time. Quite a few of the tracks on my map had disappeared, and there were quite a few new ones, but a comparison with the original map (2004) is even more striking; apart from the Main Yarra Trail and its offshoots, probably less than 50% of the tracks on the 2004 map are still there, and less than 50% of the tracks on the ground now were on the 2004 map.
And home printer ink doesn't cope with moisture too well (although #18 was the only circle that significantly degraded before I got to it).