Training Log Archive: TheInvisibleLog

Waking up controls on mt Alexander. Official duties concluded.

The day started with a box wake-up circuit. Then a trip to the other side of the map to replace a stolen control. Then a visit to five widely spaced controls to check on a reported but non-existent issue. By the end of 18 kilometres I was pretty tired. Event seemed to the ouitsider to pass without a hitch. On the inside it was pretty edgy at times. The highlight must have been a map issue that managed to overshadow a printing problem discovered on Wednesday. No Course 15 maps could be found, though they were counted yesterday. One advantage of having an event close to Bendigo was that Jim could go home and print them. But his printer refused to cooperate for a while. So others set off to Office Works, but the Jim option came good just in time. What fun. Somehow out of the chaos behind the scenes a reasonable event emerged. But I suspect tomorrow may push the carnival yet closer to the edge.

C • Great day 13

Like a miracle, the flow of Easter emails has ceased!

Final control site check. Nice area still, but I am getting a bit bored. One more visit to some of these controls to wake up the SI boxes. Another silly task made necessary by our sporting fetish for speed and 'fairness'. If we set the boxes to return to sleep after 1 second, it would slow the response time a little (still measured in milliseconds) but you wouldn't need to wake up boxes. They would be just that little bit slower for everyone. The batteries would last longer as well. Yet another process where we choose complexity over simplicity.

Another map with nary a contour...
http://omaps.worldofo.com/?id=79373

An hour of running while the tagine was slowly cooking.

The Easter flurry seemed to have slowed for me. Its either sorted or stuffed at this stage. Decided it was time I made a bit more of a commitment to the running.