Thursday, 29 November 2007
Mid-Week Event, Yeronga, Brisbane
09:00 Thursday 29th November 2007
"Yeronga" 2007 1:10,000 5m
UBD 179 L8 5km South of Brisbane CBD
"Long" 5.9km 70m climb (1.2%)
I was 9th of 13 on the course in 47 minutes, 15 minutes behind Caine.
Saturday, 24 November 2007
Park-O, Gardens Point, Brisbane
16:00 Saturday 24th November 2007
"Gardens Point" 2006 1:5,000 5m
UBD 4P10 just south of Brisbane CBD
"Long" 15 controls 4.2km 70m climb (1.7%)
3>4 note that oyu have to go way left of the line to avoid the gardens
6>7 left round the water's edge
I was 14th of 52 competitors; the winner did 20 minutes (4.9mpk!), I did 29 (6.9mpk)
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Tuesday Training, Gap Creek Reserve
Bridget, Clive, Nev, Ollie, Rachel and Tamsin made it.
First we discussed half a dozen route choices on map snippets.
Next Clive made us run around and around while he hassled us and we memorised a course of five legs and attempted to draw them on a scrap of paper afterwards. We all did quite well except for some of us failing to remember the 4th leg; and one wanted to verbal the description instead of drawing.
Next Clive asked us to take turns in pairs to pick up a random map, run across the oval to a notional start triangle, run 10m on compass to the first control, then hand over the map to our partners and describe how we would do the first leg.
Finally we all ran out to the track we mapped last week and had a go at fieldchecking what Clive had drawn, then ran back pace-counting the 100m stages that Clive has marke don the main northward track.
First we discussed half a dozen route choices on map snippets.
Next Clive made us run around and around while he hassled us and we memorised a course of five legs and attempted to draw them on a scrap of paper afterwards. We all did quite well except for some of us failing to remember the 4th leg; and one wanted to verbal the description instead of drawing.
Next Clive asked us to take turns in pairs to pick up a random map, run across the oval to a notional start triangle, run 10m on compass to the first control, then hand over the map to our partners and describe how we would do the first leg.
Finally we all ran out to the track we mapped last week and had a go at fieldchecking what Clive had drawn, then ran back pace-counting the 100m stages that Clive has marke don the main northward track.
Saturday, 17 November 2007
Park-O, University of Queensland, St Lucia
15:00 Saturday 17th November 2007
"UQ St Lucia" 2007 1:5,000 5m
UBD 179L5 4km South of Brisbane CBD
"Long" 4.8km 115m climb (2.4%)
My time of 35 minutes was 7.3mpk, which felt like a good run, but I was half way down the field of 71, 10 minutes behind the leader who ran better than 5mpk.
4>5 right
8>9 left out to the main drag
9>10 round via the lake edge
12>13 half way there is a sneaky little track south of the building
13>14 left
15>16 left
Thursday, 15 November 2007
Mid-Week event, Green Hill Reservoir, Brisbane
09:00 Thursday 15th November 2007
"Green Hill Resrvoir and Moore Park" 2004 1:10,000 5m
UBD 178F4 7km SE of Brisbane CBD
"Long" 4km 150m climb (3.8%)
I think I came 3rd.
SuYan made very good use of the map. A storm drain took me from 13 to the stream close to 14!
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Tuesday Training, Gap Creek Reserve
Posting a week later all I can remember is discussing a number of route choices on map snippets, and a great deal of pace-counting practice.
Saturday, 10 November 2007
Park-O, Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane
15:00 Saturday 10th November 2007
"Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mount Coot-tha" 2003 1:5,000 5m
UBD 158M14 5km W of Brisbane CBD
"Long" 4km 130m climb (3.3%)
The winner did it in 27:41; I was 10 places later and 8 minutes slower.
Thursday, 8 November 2007
Mid-week event, Underwood Park, Rochedale
09:00 Thursday 8th November 2007
"Underwood Park" 2005 1:7,500 5m
UBD 222P10 19km SE of Brisbane CBD
"Medium" 9 controls 4km 80m climb (2%)
Somehow I came out of 3 more or less due south and hit the double track on the ridge, thought I was at the same feature to the west, missed 4 hopelessly and relocated at 7.
Nevertheless I managed 3rd place in 38 minutes (9.5mpk) behind SuYan and Mike.
Tuesday, 6 November 2007
Tuesday Training, Gap Creek
We concentrated on distance estimation and other technique training rather than physical training today. Clive brought 6 challenging route choice snippets which created much entertainment - granite terrain typically.
Last week (I'm told) everyone calibrated their pace counting, so this week we tested it running on tracks. Even with my initial best guess (I hadn't calibrated) we had very good grouping, and the grouping got better with practice.
Next came an opportunity to try mapping a new MTB track which wound randomly up a hillside. Everyone made a good first effort using guesstimation only, but a compass helped to improve it and pace counting from landmark to landmark was very interesting.
Last week (I'm told) everyone calibrated their pace counting, so this week we tested it running on tracks. Even with my initial best guess (I hadn't calibrated) we had very good grouping, and the grouping got better with practice.
Next came an opportunity to try mapping a new MTB track which wound randomly up a hillside. Everyone made a good first effort using guesstimation only, but a compass helped to improve it and pace counting from landmark to landmark was very interesting.
Saturday, 3 November 2007
Park-O, Anzac Park, Toowong, Brisbane
15:30 Saturday 3rd November 2007
"Anzac Park" 2007 1:7,500 5m
UBD 158M16 5km W of Brisbane CBD
"Long" 17 controls 4.3km 200m climb (4.7%)
I was 12th out of 55 in 39 minutes, 8 minutes behind Ollie and a bunch of young folk plus Tim and Clare. 4 of the 8 minutes was on the two long legs.
I borrowed a cheapo thumb-plate compass from UG and managed to break it in two on the flimsy placky bit before I reached the first control - punching four large holes in the map in the process.
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