Wow, what a chilly night! About 40 competitors braved the cold, clear conditions to run in the dark on Saturday night. Toph set up 5 courses with loops, butterflies and long legs and along with the addition of a video feed and radio controls from some locations, a lot of discussion still revolved around who was going to beat whom…
Meanwhile the rest of us used the warming camp fire to defrost our fronts and backs in between cups of hot milo. Still the technology present was a fascination, watching people come into controls with their headlamps, pause then stumble off into the darkness. When the competitors began to finish, discussion changed to route choice and the inevitable thoughts of who belongs to that lone headlamp traversing the ridge above.
Well done to Toph and helpers for setting up an interesting and innovative trial of these technologies and the championship for Bendigo, and well done to the competitors on some great running. Can’t wait to see some of the GPS tracks!
Results and splits are on our Results page Some maps with GPS tracks are on QuickRoute (Scroll down to latest maps)
Here are a few: Jim | Nigel | Bruce | Dave | Laurina
Don Cherry
