Brentano-Murphy's Adventures

23 February 2020 The Campus, Bryanston This map has become one of my favorites, because of its faster running nature and not so fast and intense reading. The event started a little later than the other events because of the MyRun and instead of doing a run before hand, I decided to reserve my legs and lay in bed a little later than usual. The weather was at least cool and overcast. I set off 3rd, at 9:47 and was surprised that I found control 1 on the map straight away - a good sign for what was to come. Start > 1: Straight along the path, could easily see the control 1 > 2: Across the carpark, could see the control 2 > 3: Followed the road and fence round to the bench 3 > 4 :Set off across the road, up to the little path and then turned right at the next road. Followed the road all the way along, checking off the carpark areas and seeing where #5 is. It was a long leg and the running speed wasn't there. Had a bit of doubt when I reached the area and almos

2 February 2020 WITS Campus The season opener for the Urban Series Orienteering was held at Wits on Sunday 2 February. This season seems to have started quite late this year and with no time to find our bearings (no pun intended), we went straight into the complexity that is buildings... I only participated in one Bush event in 2019, so for me its been more than 6 months not being behind an orienteering map, so I was feeling a little rusty. Unfortunately the calf injury I had most of last year has come back, which meant I had to take this event a lot slower than what I would normally. So, on to the event. I got a nice early start at 09:04 - I saw Sarah Wimberley's name down and wanted to be sure I had enough gap for her not to catch me. Everyone seemed to set off in the same direction, down the stairs, which makes the start a little less nerve wrecking knowing where I'm going. I was very slow to find the start control on the map and control 1, and when I did find them