Bathurst. Tuesday-schools individal competition and day 1 of public races

Today we travelled out to the Roseburg state forest (on the way to Cowra) to watch our SA schools team race.
It was an absolute treat to see them shine on the Aussie stage, with some of them really putting it together well today and taking out great placings. Joanna G was the stand out in first place for junior girls, but there were lots of other terrific results for Dante, Ethan, Jack, Abigail, Ana, Emily and  Angus, who all made top 10 today as well.

The terrain was spur/gully with granite outcrops, fairly poor visibility due to close trees and lots of subtle contours and trip hazards.

Unfortunately we missed the earlier finishers, so here are the ones we caught on film. Some were so fast that we only got a blur, or the back of them.

Other shots of the day

Trevor and I then went out on courses ourselves. My result looked really good, probably due to no real errors, because I didn't think I was moving very fast (5th out of 48).  Trev was 39 out of 49 runners on his course.

Trev's course

Erica's course

After we finished up we decided to take the alternative route home along forest tracks, through the Roseburg, Pennsylvania and Neville forests. This nearly brought us undone , as we followed the GPS instructions down some quite unused tracks, and at one stage had to decide whether to continue over a fallen tree, or turn back.

In the end the decision to continue turned out to be a good one, and we saw some different parts of the local countryside on the way home as we followed that crazy pink line on our screen.

Tonight we will catch  up with Maurice, who used to orienteer in SA, but currently resides in ACT.