Training Log Archive: PrueD

Street O enduro at Loughnan Link (Mullum Mullum). I did my best to jog but it was very very hilly and l had walk a lot of the steep hills. My knee wasn't really happy at any point in time and so my jogging was slow. The rain held off until after the cakes.

C • Good thing 7

Even l could not think of a good enough excuse to avoid running today (even though my knee is still a bit sore). It was a glorious morning and l ran around Blackburn lake and creeklands.

I went to Kevin Maloney's farewell service yesterday. It was very well attended with almost all the retired Melbourne orienteers in attendance. It was a fitting farewell, with a wonderful eulogy and heartfelt poem from David Goddard. Kevin went to his final resting place (Healesville) in a recycled box completely covered with his old orienteering maps and related memorabilia.

C • Kevin's farewell 10

State series at Lockwood South course 4. I put in a fairly poor performance today by not being careful. I made 2 huge errors, which resulted in considerable extra distance. The first was to not take a bearing leaving #2 and ran a fair way before l realised, then tried to cut across, which was silly as l didn't really know where l was. I finally relocated off a track junction. The second mistake was to miss #10 and wander aimlessly for a while. I was close to giving up when l found it. Anyway, it was good practice for.......?? The lesson was that persistence pays as a large number of people in my course were MPs and DNFs and although my time was woefully long, the placing was respectable.

C • Good practice for... 4