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Wednesday Dec 7, 2016 #
6 PM
Run ((orienteering)) 56:02 [3] *** 5.3 km (10:34 / km) +280m 8:22 / km
spiked:14/18c
Summer twilight at Red Hill, rather more epic than I was expecting. I knew when the assembly area was at the place I think of as the Carousel (although it probably hasn't had that name for 20+ years) that there were going to be some steep bits, and that there would be a reasonable number of thistles and grass seeds. This one had a lot in the steep stuff - more often across than up and down, but still slow - and several scary downhill legs to small point features in nothing much.
A lot of people struck a lot of trouble (some of the controls were hung very low). I didn't fare too badly by those standards, probably 45 seconds at 11 and smaller misses at 7, 10 and drifting wide on 18. Unsurprisingly, I didn't have my terrain legs (it was my first time running in the terrain for a couple of months) and lacked confidence in the rougher ground underfoot, and also didn't have much for the hills, although the final climb was a bit better. 28 years is definitely more than enough to lose a home-ground advantage (not that home-ground advantage would ever have helped much with the hills).
Today's bit of celebrity-spotting was when I arrived at the conference today and just about the first person I saw was Dave Warner, someone whose only discernible connection with the Australian Statistical Conference is that he generates lots of statistics. (The team were staying in the hotel where the conference was). I congratulated him on the result last night but didn't get round to asking him whether he had any good deals on OLED TVs.
A lot of people struck a lot of trouble (some of the controls were hung very low). I didn't fare too badly by those standards, probably 45 seconds at 11 and smaller misses at 7, 10 and drifting wide on 18. Unsurprisingly, I didn't have my terrain legs (it was my first time running in the terrain for a couple of months) and lacked confidence in the rougher ground underfoot, and also didn't have much for the hills, although the final climb was a bit better. 28 years is definitely more than enough to lose a home-ground advantage (not that home-ground advantage would ever have helped much with the hills).
Today's bit of celebrity-spotting was when I arrived at the conference today and just about the first person I saw was Dave Warner, someone whose only discernible connection with the Australian Statistical Conference is that he generates lots of statistics. (The team were staying in the hotel where the conference was). I congratulated him on the result last night but didn't get round to asking him whether he had any good deals on OLED TVs.