Training Log Archive: jennycas

Popular sprint course around the botanical gardens, which weren't exactly mapped to ISSprOM standards (not that they were claimed to be) and even though I jogged very slowly because I was worried about my hamstring I still got a bit confused by olive green being used for some patches of bushland and not others and made a 90 degree error on the way to my 9th control, actually punching a totally wrong one (mini-flags with hanging SI units and the number wasn't obvious, but also I didn't check it) on a shelter instead of a boulder (at 1: 2500 the boulder looked like a building on the map) and only working it out when the track towards the next control wasn't going the right way. So then I backtracked, found the correct control, attempted the leg to 10 again and got confused again because the tracks had changed and when I saw a bright green lawn, thought I must have somehow got into the OOB by mistake. Anyway, prolly a couple min lost there but actually I dunno because there weren't any splits. And it doesn't really matter because it was a fun little event either way (apart from too long spent standing in the sun in the waiting-to-download queue).

SLEH came around for lunch and then we all headed to Canowindra to the Age Of Fishes fossil museum, watching a very black cloud in the southeast which then came our way and dumped lots of big - up to 2cm, which I've never seen before - hail (Susanne was triumphant because she'd asked Blair if there was ice in those clouds and he'd thought not) so actually the storm was of greater interest than the fish fossils, to everyone but the geologist in our party! Lachlan got everyone else's money's worth as well as his own out of the museum though :)

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