Australian Relays

Today we had the state relays.

SA did Ok , with our W16 girls, M12 and M16 teams on the podium.  M21AS also won, and we had a mixed team and M65 also in the places.
It was another long hard day with warm weather and tough courses.
Results were a bit tricky with the relay software and don't appear to be up online yet.
Trevor ran a longer course than usual, pretending that he is still 45 years old, and I also  ran in the W45.  As usual Trevor ran better than I did on a longer course,  but we were both well outclassed by others who can push through bush as though it isn't there and run up and down hills endlessly. After yesterday's courses today was just a bit too much, with step gullies and quite poor visibility.

It is always fun, however to run in the relays.  The excitement of being a part of a team  representing the state and the camaraderie is terrific.   I particularly enjoyed my team mates Susan and Jill this year who came into the relays with the attitude that we were all there to do our best, have fun and enjoy it. And we did.

I went out first runner, so there are no photos of early runners, but I have a few of those who came along in the later part of the day.

My two fabulous team mates:

Meredith

John

Peter

This one was taken waiting formthe second mass start to leave the arena. Note the good looking bloke in the foreground.

It has been great fun, but now it is over for another year, and us SA people start to think about 2018 and how we can supply a carnival of this calibre for the Aussie orienteering fraternity.