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Sunday Mar 15, 2015 #
5 PM
Run ((orienteering)) 24:25 [3] *** 1.8 km (13:34 / km) +30m 12:31 / km
spiked:23/26c
So, of course, a sprint is a totally obvious thing to do the day after Six Foot. I knew long before this weekend that it would be a sprint in name only, but it sounded like an interesting area in the old military installations at Middle Head, and I thought it would be worth checking out even if I could only walk. (As it happened, as I've noticed before with shot quads, it's easier to run - or at least shuffle - than walk).
I was barely shuffling through the first few controls and had a bit of a wobble on 1, going in one passage too early. Otherwise technically OK through the first part, though had to take the "disabled access" (a sloping rock ledge) into 8 because I didn't fancy trying to jump down a half-metre wall. The fort section, with lots of underground passages, was fun although I couldn't make sense of the map (or description) at 15 and probably lost close to a minute there. Another wobble at 18 (where Georgia went past me at a speed which she didn't think was very fast but was a lot faster than mine), but fairly smooth from there and even starting to run a bit more respectably, although still way below full pace. Got in before the rain started in earnest.
The map had a few issues (most of them related to the fact that the grey didn't print well) which were being dissected by some afterwards, although the finisher who was loudly disgruntled about 25 had, if he did what I think he did, only himself to blame. (Those who read the letters column of the last Australian Orienteer may wish to note that, like all previous people I've witnessed behaving in this manner at the finish, he was well past the elite age range). You wouldn't run a National League here - the fort section is probably not mappable at 1:4000 with ISSOM (we had a 1:2000 inset today) - but it was a lot of fun for what it was, even considering my very diminished physical state. I suspect the hit-out will do my body good, too.
Made good use of the $2.50 all-day-Sunday deal on the Sydney public transport system - "Sydney" for these purposes extends to the Blue Mountains so this princely sum got me from Blackheath to Blacktown, then buses to Macquarie Park and then near Tracy and Sticky's, then from near there to Mosman. I would have got more value for it still had I not got a ride from the event to the airport (although the $2.50 doesn't include the airport station access fee). Thought the Blacktown bus interchange might have been an interesting cultural experience but at 11am on a Sunday it was pretty innocuous. Lots of colour on the train, but unlike two weeks ago it was the green of people heading for the St. Patrick's Day parade, not the red and black of the Western Sydney Wanderers.
I was barely shuffling through the first few controls and had a bit of a wobble on 1, going in one passage too early. Otherwise technically OK through the first part, though had to take the "disabled access" (a sloping rock ledge) into 8 because I didn't fancy trying to jump down a half-metre wall. The fort section, with lots of underground passages, was fun although I couldn't make sense of the map (or description) at 15 and probably lost close to a minute there. Another wobble at 18 (where Georgia went past me at a speed which she didn't think was very fast but was a lot faster than mine), but fairly smooth from there and even starting to run a bit more respectably, although still way below full pace. Got in before the rain started in earnest.
The map had a few issues (most of them related to the fact that the grey didn't print well) which were being dissected by some afterwards, although the finisher who was loudly disgruntled about 25 had, if he did what I think he did, only himself to blame. (Those who read the letters column of the last Australian Orienteer may wish to note that, like all previous people I've witnessed behaving in this manner at the finish, he was well past the elite age range). You wouldn't run a National League here - the fort section is probably not mappable at 1:4000 with ISSOM (we had a 1:2000 inset today) - but it was a lot of fun for what it was, even considering my very diminished physical state. I suspect the hit-out will do my body good, too.
Made good use of the $2.50 all-day-Sunday deal on the Sydney public transport system - "Sydney" for these purposes extends to the Blue Mountains so this princely sum got me from Blackheath to Blacktown, then buses to Macquarie Park and then near Tracy and Sticky's, then from near there to Mosman. I would have got more value for it still had I not got a ride from the event to the airport (although the $2.50 doesn't include the airport station access fee). Thought the Blacktown bus interchange might have been an interesting cultural experience but at 11am on a Sunday it was pretty innocuous. Lots of colour on the train, but unlike two weeks ago it was the green of people heading for the St. Patrick's Day parade, not the red and black of the Western Sydney Wanderers.
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