We started up above the uni on a hill covered with rocks and native pines and I got through the hilltop controls pretty cleanly then was very slow on the steep descent down the hillside into the uni (made slower by the fact that at my moment of hesitation trying to work out if the marked fence crossing point was actually a gate, I had a moment of bodily contact with Bruce whose trajectory was at right angles to mine - oops!).
I'd expected my legs to be tired after yesterday but in fact they weren't too bad although obviously I've lost fitness since NZ, so I was able to run hard through the uni section and didn't mind that the course was a bit too long. Only mistakes were in not correctly reading the trap controls on the bridge and on the broad stairs.
On the way back to Melbourne we drove past The Rock, scene of the first Aust Schools' Champs I ever attended - in 1987 - and later stopped to walk to the top of the granite boulders at Mad Dan Morgan's Lookout. He sounds like a really nasty piece of work even as 1800s bushrangers go, but the smallish patch of granite outcrops could make a nice little microsprint:
http://www.visitnsw.com/destinations/country-nsw/t...