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Saturday Mar 25, 2017 #
12 PM
Run race ((orienteering)) 23:01 [4] *** 2.7 km (8:31 / km) +85m 7:22 / km
spiked:16/17c
I'm not sure how many times I would have gone out on the eastern side of Red Hill, either training or coaching, between 1983 and 1993, but it was a different experience - the wiggles in the contours on the map of that era were essentially random and bore only a passing resemblance to what was on the ground, so the contours on that slope weren't terribly useful for navigation (except for which way was up and which was down).
This was a sprint on a decent map, and went reasonably smoothly. Struggled uphill as I expected (although not as much as might have been possible, and of course starting on the top helped). Not a lot of speed but perhaps better in that respect than two weeks ago. Only one minor time loss, coming into 10 a little high and dropping maybe 15 seconds or so.
This was a sprint on a decent map, and went reasonably smoothly. Struggled uphill as I expected (although not as much as might have been possible, and of course starting on the top helped). Not a lot of speed but perhaps better in that respect than two weeks ago. Only one minor time loss, coming into 10 a little high and dropping maybe 15 seconds or so.
4 PM
Run race ((orienteering)) 19:32 [4] *** 2.9 km (6:44 / km) +35m 6:21 / km
spiked:21/22c
Sprint B final at Canberra Girls Grammar. I've been around the edge of here many, many times (on the school bus, and later on dropping-off-little-sister duties), but I think I'd only previously set foot on the campus twice.
Before the start of the weekend I was thinking my aspiration today was not to come last but it was clear from the entry list that this wasn't going to be a risk, so I readjusted my aim to scoring a point (which would require 15th). A little disconcerted at the start by seeing Simon Rouse confused after starting a minute in front of me, but settled reasonably well. Only one mistake but it was a visible one - ran to the wrong tree at the map change/spectator control and lost 20 seconds or so. Started to fade away a bit in the second half (especially uphill), although that would have made no difference to my eventual placing (18th).
Hamstring pulled up a little sore post-run, although it didn't cause trouble out there. Will need to see how it goes tomorrow.
Something you wouldn't see happen in too many other sports: we were holding the OA annual general meeting today (constitutionally it has to be in March or April and the usual Easter timeslot isn't available this year, so we held a short meeting to deal with the legalities and deferred everything else to a special meeting at QB3). With the presentations taking place during the B final, the start time of the AGM was "whenever the President finishes" (I did take a couple of minutes to change my running top before taking the chair).
There were about 350 people at this event, which we think is the largest non-national carnival event in the ACT for at least 30 years. Being a joint ACT/NSW state league event helps but that's been done before without quite the same crowd. Good to see.
Before the start of the weekend I was thinking my aspiration today was not to come last but it was clear from the entry list that this wasn't going to be a risk, so I readjusted my aim to scoring a point (which would require 15th). A little disconcerted at the start by seeing Simon Rouse confused after starting a minute in front of me, but settled reasonably well. Only one mistake but it was a visible one - ran to the wrong tree at the map change/spectator control and lost 20 seconds or so. Started to fade away a bit in the second half (especially uphill), although that would have made no difference to my eventual placing (18th).
Hamstring pulled up a little sore post-run, although it didn't cause trouble out there. Will need to see how it goes tomorrow.
Something you wouldn't see happen in too many other sports: we were holding the OA annual general meeting today (constitutionally it has to be in March or April and the usual Easter timeslot isn't available this year, so we held a short meeting to deal with the legalities and deferred everything else to a special meeting at QB3). With the presentations taking place during the B final, the start time of the AGM was "whenever the President finishes" (I did take a couple of minutes to change my running top before taking the chair).
There were about 350 people at this event, which we think is the largest non-national carnival event in the ACT for at least 30 years. Being a joint ACT/NSW state league event helps but that's been done before without quite the same crowd. Good to see.
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