street O @ Griffith

yesterday I found I had pulled up well after the duathlon...Hodge got swooped on our walk...bused to work as usual...

I bit the bullet and entered the ACT Duathlon Championships for Sunday week - this event is double the distance (10/40/5) so should be double the fun...start/finish is on Rond Terrace with the run at 2.5k out & back along the bike path on the edge of the lake up to the hospice while the cycle leg is a 5k out & back on Parkes Way towards the Glenloch Interchange...

at lunch I went for a walk into Ainslie and found two caches including one on the lower slopes of Mt Ainslie...

street O was @ Griffiths so Jodie picked me...all bar two people were waiting at the listed assembly point until someone came and told us (after 6pm) where the start/finish actually was!

we ended up getting underway at 6:16pm and I managed to persuade Jodie to have a go at getting 15 controls this week seeing as this is the last street O for a few weeks...conditions were the warmest they'd been all series and the course was quite hilly so it was a good challenge...

the stats:
start temp/humidity: 15.5/57% (apparent temp same)
start time: 6:16pm
total distance: 8.56
total time: 62:01 (official 64:00)
avg pace: 7:15
total calories: 551
avg HR: 120
recovery HR: 91/64

our order was 1 - 12 - 10 - 13 - 15 - 16 - 18 - 14 - 19 - 17 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 6 - 8 - F...we finished in just over the hour...the organiser wrote down the actual time of day (round to the nearest minute) for everyone's finish times instead of elapsed time...

Course B: 15 out of 20 controls

Men
1 Craig Mottershead AO-A 4 19.04 (48:00)
2 Tate Needham RR-A 7 19.09 (53:00)
3 Geoff Wood PO-A 10 19.10 (54:00)
4 Noah Poland BS-A 13 19.13 (57:00)
5 Keith Fifield RR-A 14 19.14 (58:00)

Women
1 Carol Harding BS-A 5 19.06 (50:00)

Teams
1 Bronwyn Calver / Jodie Davis BS-A 19.20 (64:00)

up on time this morning to walk Hodge then ride into work...it was very windy and a particularly strong crosswind cross Commonwealth Ave bridge

the stats:
start temp/humidity: 15.9/54% (apparent temp same)
start time: 8:12am
total distance: 16.60
total time: 43:48 (including 1:04 stopped time)
avg speed: 22.7kph
total calories: 337
avg HR: 124

found out that the duathlon category for the Jackie Fairweather Memorial Triathlon weekend in November has been cancelled due to timing concerns so a refund is being organised...

will get out for my usual run at lunch...