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Saturday Jun 11, 2016 #
2 PM
Run race ((orienteering)) 43:24 [4] *** 4.8 km (9:02 / km) +115m 8:04 / km
spiked:24/26c
Day 1 of QB3 at Coffs Harbour. This sounds like (and is) a fair way to come (especially with Kooyoora as a rival attraction), but it's the first major event to be staged by any of our new post-2012 clubs and I thought I should put in an appearance.
It turned out to be a pretty interesting bit of terrain - a strip of sand dunes 200-300m wide between the railway line and the beach, with a real mix of vegetation and enough yellow patches to make it reasonably runnable if you chose your routes carefully. After the first couple I also got into reading the vegetation, and once I could read that I always felt reasonably in touch with the navigation - a couple of wobbles but not more than 15 seconds (certainly a vast improvement on last weekend). Didn't feel very aggressive with the running, especially when there was lantana about. Shep blew us all away, but I wasn't too far away from the rest, without claiming many notable scalps (Andy Hill being the most notable). Fairly happy with this.
One thing you certainly wouldn't have had at Kooyoora - seeing dolphins on the warm-down.
Having a direct flight certainly made the trip easier. First time I've flown Tiger - didn't expect any frills and didn't get any (the Melbourne terminal 4 certainly has "cheap" written all over it), but they got me from A to B when they said they would, which is the main thing.
It turned out to be a pretty interesting bit of terrain - a strip of sand dunes 200-300m wide between the railway line and the beach, with a real mix of vegetation and enough yellow patches to make it reasonably runnable if you chose your routes carefully. After the first couple I also got into reading the vegetation, and once I could read that I always felt reasonably in touch with the navigation - a couple of wobbles but not more than 15 seconds (certainly a vast improvement on last weekend). Didn't feel very aggressive with the running, especially when there was lantana about. Shep blew us all away, but I wasn't too far away from the rest, without claiming many notable scalps (Andy Hill being the most notable). Fairly happy with this.
One thing you certainly wouldn't have had at Kooyoora - seeing dolphins on the warm-down.
Having a direct flight certainly made the trip easier. First time I've flown Tiger - didn't expect any frills and didn't get any (the Melbourne terminal 4 certainly has "cheap" written all over it), but they got me from A to B when they said they would, which is the main thing.