Training Log Archive: PrueD

A nice day out at Nerrina for the Victorian Relays. I was in a mixed team doing the moderate distance course (3.1 km). Blair set an excellent technical course with no free controls - so I was impressed. I started badly - heading up the wrong track - but I wasn't going to go back past the start so headed throughthe bush to 1. OK to 2. Slightly disorientated at 3 as I couldn't visualize the terrain. Then I took a wrong bearing to 4 - ending up much further south and having to relocate. 5 and 6 good. Headed the wrong way out of 6 and arrived at 7 via the long route. 8 good. Then got very confused around 9 (the easy control) and 10 due to several circles and the start/finish all overalapping. OK once I re-orientated. 11 and 12 good. I was very confused at 13 as I arrived at a dam (I think marked as a clearing on the map) and, with several others, wasted time before relocating by heading uphill to a track. Then 14 and home. I was slow but at least I was there. It was LOVELY to be in the bush again and wished I was staying and camping out there. I would have enjoyed more of a walk on this map. Then a few off us headed off to coffee/cake in Ballarat.

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Street-O at Doncaster Pines - a very hilly area where there have been a number of events in the past 6 months and all the controls seemed to be in similar places to the last couple of events there. I haven't run for ages and my muscles are quite tense / knee a bit sore - but I managed to plod (walk/jog) along.

I don't think I'll be doing W35 in orienteering for a while - at the moment I would not look or feel out of place in W75. Hopefully, now that the drama of the past month has passed, life will start to get back to normal. Actually, it won't be back to normal because I'm going to have a lot more spare time now.

PS - I haven't read anyone else's log for a week - so hopefully nothing's happened that I should know about. Thank you to all the people who sent me kind messages this week.

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