Orienteering 20:00 [3]
Honeysuckle training with the cockies. Good little warm up exercise, 2 sided map, one contour only and one rock detail only. Jogged around with Lachy, alternating contour-rock from control to control. generally found the contour person leading on the leg, but the rock person overtaking as we hit the circle.
Which makes sense.
Huge thanks to GrantM for setting and taping the exercises! Hugely appreciated!
Orienteering 37:00 [3]
Middle distance course down the valley and back.
Felt amazing to be back out on a map! Didn't feel fit, for sure, but did feel strong :) So all those exercises must be doing something! Had one of those legs 3-4 where I was in just absolute bliss, loving the running, the smell of the forest, and the feeling of being alone in the forest :) sigh.
Training wise I went ok, rusty as can be expected. Somehow did not see the tape at #20, despite being bang on in the right place. Must have been enjoying the surroundings too much!
And had the closest encounter that I ever want to have, just as I jogged into the campground. Heard something coming at me from up the hill, so I turned, expecting it to be LOLLY, to instead find that it was a kangaroo, less than 2m away, heading full speed straight for me. Instantly flattened myself to the ground and scrunched my eyes shut, expecting an impact. No idea if the roo jumped over me, or skidded around, but I was hell lucky we managed to avoid each other! Pretty sure I'd have come off worse.