SS#6: You Yangs

Bush orienteering in the You Yangs state forest park. I'd already decided that I was going to walk (after yesterday's effort), but 80% of the terrain was un-runnable anyway with large sections of unpenetrable green stuff. The other 80% was granite rocks, which are fun (ha ha, not) to navigate through at the best of times. Found most of the course pretty straightforward, though, and I was a bit surprised to see the distance that I'd covered.

Found Marta looking lost at control #6, and then again at #7 along with 3 others (we found it eventually), and again at #13 where she convinced me that we were in the right place. Silly girl - me, for listening to her! We found it a bit further along where I thought it would be, and from there to the finish we stayed together, picking up Pam at the second-to-last control.

Nice area, not too cold (except in the exposed areas), and apart from wading through prickly waist-deep greenery it was nice terrain and not too steep.

Too cold to stick around for a picnic lunch though, so headed for the warmth of the Golden Arches on the way home.

Course: 4, 15 controls
Course Length: 4.7 km
Actual Distance: 7.6 km
Time Taken: 2:06


weekly wrap:

Weight	72.1 kgs ▲
Running	49.6 kms