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Sunday Oct 16, 2016 #
7 AM
Rogaine 4:15:00 [2] 16.0 km (15:56 / km) +500m 13:47 / km
Settled down enough overnight for us to go out for a loop into the area west of the assembly - in contrast to the east, a lot of this is pine forest. A lot of the pine forest is not very nice to go through (blackberries being a common feature), so the track network was well used (and more reliably mapped than in the eucalypt).
Didn't quite get our strategy right for this one. There was a strip of high-scoring controls in the eucalypt west of the pines, but we spent too much time picking up other stuff on the way and didn't leave ourselves enough time to have a crack at those, instead having to settle for some 40s in the pines on the way south. Most memorable control of the day was our second-last, 67 - when there's a 60-pointer just over 1km from the hash house one suspects that there's something a bit feral about it, and in this case it was a 300-metre bash down the creek through the pines where you had the option of either wading or battling blackberries. We waded. (Water was not in short supply on this rogaine, given what the last few months have been like).
The pleasant surprise today was that the calf pulled up OK, and even managed a few jogging sections without flaring up afterwards. Hopefully this means I just tried to come back on it a day or two too early (but I'll be interested to see what the physio thinks when I see her tomorrow). Usually even a low-grade muscle strain (assuming that's what it is) would see footballers miss a week so I was probably trying to be a bit ambitious.
It was a bit disappointing the way this ended up (and it always feels worse when it's a team you've let down and not just yourself), but at least I've learned some useful things for the next time I try a proper 24 (and now that this is unfinished business, I do plan for there to be a next time at some point, although I'm not sure when). Two things I've definitely learned: (a) my light would not have been good enough for night navigation (something which as it turned out wasn't really put to the test) and (b) Jenny swears by English muffins with cheese but I have a lot of difficulty digesting these while moving, so I'll need to find something else as fuel for the long haul.
Didn't quite get our strategy right for this one. There was a strip of high-scoring controls in the eucalypt west of the pines, but we spent too much time picking up other stuff on the way and didn't leave ourselves enough time to have a crack at those, instead having to settle for some 40s in the pines on the way south. Most memorable control of the day was our second-last, 67 - when there's a 60-pointer just over 1km from the hash house one suspects that there's something a bit feral about it, and in this case it was a 300-metre bash down the creek through the pines where you had the option of either wading or battling blackberries. We waded. (Water was not in short supply on this rogaine, given what the last few months have been like).
The pleasant surprise today was that the calf pulled up OK, and even managed a few jogging sections without flaring up afterwards. Hopefully this means I just tried to come back on it a day or two too early (but I'll be interested to see what the physio thinks when I see her tomorrow). Usually even a low-grade muscle strain (assuming that's what it is) would see footballers miss a week so I was probably trying to be a bit ambitious.
It was a bit disappointing the way this ended up (and it always feels worse when it's a team you've let down and not just yourself), but at least I've learned some useful things for the next time I try a proper 24 (and now that this is unfinished business, I do plan for there to be a next time at some point, although I'm not sure when). Two things I've definitely learned: (a) my light would not have been good enough for night navigation (something which as it turned out wasn't really put to the test) and (b) Jenny swears by English muffins with cheese but I have a lot of difficulty digesting these while moving, so I'll need to find something else as fuel for the long haul.