Training Log Archive: Mess Engineer

Event: Newcastle OY #8 - Barnsley
 

Hard Medium.

After months of frustration with poor performance I was happy with navigation today and I didn't come a dismal last. So felt a lot better which prompted me to do a second run as wayfarer.

#1 Got thrown by the placement of the control right next to the track. A father and son were there and I thought it must be an Easy Control rather than mine although it was in the right location.

#2 You could see this from Control #1 so no problems.

#3 East to major track. Then NE up major track to bend. Then east along track straight to control. All the track network made perfect sense today.

#4 NW back to major track. Crossed ditch and through scrub to track and then straight on to clearing.

#5 Track network to waterway. Then approximately west along tracks until found bend in waterway and on to control. Never got lost but wasn't as confident.

#6 South through bush to main track, coming out just east of track intersection. East slightly to find clearing and then south through clearing and onto creek. Up creek to control. I was happy with this leg.

#7 East to major track. Then east along minor track and south to control. I was within about 10 metres of it when I lost confidence so some time lost here.

#8 East to vegetation boundary and then across creek to control.

#9 East to major track. NE up track and then followed it E. South on track intersection until 90 degree bend then directly east to control. No issues.

#10 South to powerlines clearing. Across both sets of powerlines. Ran to end of prominent ditch in powerline clearing. Then SE to control. No issues.

#11 SW along powerline clearing up to major powerline. Then NW to track and then up track directly leading to feature. No issues

#12 SW down hill. Overshot slightly to the 2nd fenceline running parallel to the track. Realised there were two fencelines and then corrected south to control.

#13 NW along track past out of bounds area. Then W to watercourse and onto control. No issues.

#14 West to powerline clearing. Thought this was a good chance of making a mistake. So elected to go to creekline. Followed creek up leading to control and got to the end where the creek turned into tracks. Then north up to control.

Moderate Long.

#1 Navigated purely by memory since it was shared with my previous course.

#2 Basically a repeat of prior course.

#3 North to major track. Then along major track and then overshot the southern track. A minute wasted.

#4 Ran south to major power pole. Then followed track SW to within 40 metres of control. Lost confidence. Went out onto next powerline clearing and used the two powerlines to relocate back to the control. Lost at least 3 to 4 minutes.

#5 Repeat of prior course.

#6 Repeat or prior course.

#7 NW along track to control.

#8 NW to track.. Then W along track and down into gully to control.

#9 West across powerline clearing and directly to control.

Hard Medium - Splits

Moderate Long - Splits

Since I forgot about the Rogaine deadline decided to treat myself to an adventure away from Newcastle.

Returned to rerun Mt Penang as it was only 20 minutes away from Glenworth Valley where I had booked to try some new adventures.

Large group taking turns so only got in about 6 or 7 abseils in the 2.5 hours.
Tried 2 forward facing abseils for something different.

Crashed quad bike and flipped over handlebars landing on shoulder. Wearing a helmet but still didn't feel OK for next day.
Damaged quad bike as rolled it over so it turned out to be a very expensive day for me.
Instructor said she had never witnessed such a spectacular crash in all the years she had been there.
At least I am still standing and not paralysed although shoulder is totally unusable. May get X Ray's if it doesn't resolve in next few days.

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