Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

This is the third time I'd planned to run the course from the Sorrento street-O (somewhat to my surprise, not set up as a MapRun, so I was working out for myself whether I was at controls). The last two times injury had got in the way, but I managed it this time, more or less - though somewhat unconvincingly, and walking some of the steeper dunes. At first glance the course looked clearable in the 45 minutes I'd given myself, but it was deceptively long - perhaps the map had been resized in the print? - and I didn't go to four at the far end, and one other. (It would have been a bit shorter if some of the paths between dead-ends had actually been mapped).

Nice day to be down here - moved on to a good market at Point Nepean afterwards (first time for a while I've had the experience of being waved into a car park on grass by people in hi-vis vests, a good warm-up for Easter), and not as crowded as I thought it might have been on a long weekend.

On CityStrides, an urban orienteering course is often a recipe for progressing a lot of streets but not finishing many, but today's route collected quite a lot; 500 completed streets since I started tracking (about this time last year) is a bit of a milestone. (In Australia it seems to track "cities" by local council area, so today didn't make much headway into the 3600 streets in the Mornington Peninsula Shire).