A good day for New Things

[zebra363]

29. Do a cross-country race with a deep creek crossingThis was the WA Marathon Club's 16km "King of the Mountain" run from Helena Valley to Fred Jacoby Park in Mundaring State Forest. Luckily I didn't learn about the creek crossings until I was on the bus to the start. As it was, when I woke to heavy rain at 6am I only convinced myself to go

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[sarren]

Whereas I am of the school of thought that believes attack is more fun than defence and only went back to check on my own Red base once, in the second game after I heard two young Yellow boys yelling that Yellow and Blue were combining forces to attack Red, which may possibly have been my fault as earlier I had convinced a handful of young Blues to join me in taking down the Yellows. Oops.

I like the way you say Sarren was there so you had to go, as though I would have JUDGED you. *stares at you*

[zebra363]

Whoops, that's what I meant. ::fixes:: What I said didn't make sense.

I would have judged me, but you would have been there to witness it! I'm glad I went, so the extra silent encouragement was appreciated!

[isiscolo]

Okay, you WIN. Because I have never crossed a creek up to BREAST LEVEL (mid-thigh is all, and that was hiking, not running, and I had other shoes to swap into for that!) and I have never had to run with sodden shoes! It sounds horrid, actually. But I suppose one of these days I shall have to suck it up and do a race with a serious water crossing.

(I guess it wasn't fast or icy water? Because most of the crossings here are hazardous if they are worse than knee-deep...)

[zebra363]

No, not very fast or icy. I was glad it was raining and I was wet anyway, though, or the temperature difference would have been much more of a shock!
They said on the bus to the start that the creek crossings were much deeper this year than they usually are, since it rained all night the night before.

This was the only run I've done that I thought might possibly have been almost as interesting as the ones near you!

[bluebrocade]

I've never heard of creek crossing during a run. That's fascinating.

I've always wanted to try one of those lazer games. Sounds fun.

[zebra363]

The club I'm a member of has an annual cross-country run where you have to get across a creek several times, but it's narrow enough that you can jump it (usually - maybe if there was a lot of rain the night before that wouldn't work). I had no idea I'd have to get so wet yesterday!

[juffles]

Helena Valley oval - ~25m
Fred Jacoby - ~200m

Nice work!

We had an orienteering event a few years ago, which the setters had laid out crossing the Helena River (above Mundaring Weir) 3 times. Not normally a problem, it doesn't flow much anyway. Except it rained hard for the few days leading up to it, and the dry creek bed was suddenly 10m wide and up to 2m deep.

First time I've ever done swim orienteering... :)

[zebra363]

That makes me feel good! I expected it to be more of a steady uphill climb and instead there was lots of up and lots of down - but obviously more up!

Thank you!

[cricketk]

Next time I see you, we can put the route into a Google Maps application and see how much uphill you did. I'd expect that while the total was 175m, you probably did about double that.

What fun!

[zebra363]

There was definitely quite a bit of down, so there must have been extra up to compensate for it!

It was your kind of event! And the deep creek crossing was fun, I'm just glad I didn't know about it in advance.