Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

I don't do a lot of winter street-Os (at least since my days as VOA president when I felt I needed to fly the flag occasionally at all the series of significance), but this one was local (Watsonia) and the timing suited. It's a nice area for street-O, although a lot of the short-cut options are through parks which makes things challenging in the dark if your light isn't good (or is non-existent). Bryan Ackerly found this out when he ran full-bore into a chain and took a nasty knock on the shins, thereby demonstrating that when the soccer players go down in apparent agony it's at least sometimes real (the cases where they go down clutching their face when contact has been to the arm are another story). No referee was present to give the offending chain a yellow card.

The run was pleasant and the hamstring continues to respond well. Not working terribly hard.

Big score of the day was that I found out in the nick of time that the Bureau was throwing out its topographic map collection. After an hour or so of scavenging I am now the proud owner of 1:250000 sheets covering, at a guess, a quarter of Australia, along with a fair number of NSW and Tasmanian 1:25000s and a few historical curios - some of the maps had printed on them 'Official Document - if found please return to the nearest military post or police station'. (Some of the maps I didn't take documented a history of post-WW2 military adventures, extending from Korea to Malaysia to Vietnam). Getting the pile home will be the next challenge.

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