Saturday night we joined up with Cath, Eoin, Aoife, Carolyn and Morten in Mittagong. We were lucky to get a tent site at the same caravan park as Cath & co due to a cancellation. After setting up the tents and having showers we headed out for dinner ending up at an indian restaurant. Not our first choice but the curries were delicious.
It was pretty cold on Saturday night in our tents - Andy & Ella in one and Katy & I in the other but we had brought enough warm bedding and coped just fine. Katy made it through to 5.30am before demanding some milk!
Sunday we drove to Belanglo Forest for the long distance event. Unfortunately the map for the elites was poorly printed so that the small rock features were not visible. This created confusion as the control circles seemed to be around nothing on the map but had boulder, cliff, high point descriptions. Combine this with a course that was too long with the first water control after 90mins meant that Andy wasn't too happy.
While Andy was on his epic run Ella, Katy and I had our own adventure on the blue course. I decided to take the pram (for Katy) and the backpack (for Ella). At number 2 we had to move off the track for a Murray's bus! At this point we saw Andy punch his first control too. Between controls 3 & 4 we had a taped route which turned out to be through pretty thick bush. Not ideal for a pram but nevertheless with lots of pushing we made it through. In hindsight it probably would have been easier if I put Katy into the backpack, folded up the pram and carried it through. At control 6 we encountered some noisy motorbikes (Ella wasn't too impressed). We completed the 1.7km course in 39mins coming 2nd (out of 2).
The rest of the morning was spent warming up (did you notice Ella has a pair of tracky pants as she thought it was too cold for a skirt too) then mostly playing with Max and Aoife while waiting for Andy to finish which he did taking a total of 2.5hrs!
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