Collie trail fest

We drive to Collie for a weekend of trail running.

Stopping for lunch at Stirling Cottage just before Harvey. The food is okay, it's a beautiful spot with nice gardens, we always stop here.

We turn onto Mornington Road, a quiet winding, sealed, road through forest.

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Deb drives, I play with the new sound system. The original radio +CD stopped working.

The new system is the simplest available...

The radio works.

There is no CD player, our CDs are copied to thumb drive.

There is some ability to select a music track, generally the player gives us whatever random track it finds. Luckily we like all of the music on the thumb drive.

The player has a bluetooth connection to our phones. We're not sure whose phone it's picking up...

Deb's phone is navigating, the sound system shows where we are but not where we are going.

My phone is doing nothing but has siri. I shout hey siri at the sound system, it shows the swirly siri symbol but otherwise ignores me.

The system includes a hema map module, even the man who installed it could not display a hema map.

I can now consistently get music. Sometimes even music

xxx that we want.

So it's better than the old broken system.

Do you see the occasional xx ? That's where the tablet crashes and has to restart. Crap Apple tablet pile of junk. anyway...

xxx again 

anyway.

We arrive at our accommodation. Glen Mervyn Lodge. It's a cottage on a farm. peaceful, cosy, very nice. also surprising... i'm not sure of my understanding when i booked but today my expectation is... a room in a resort. i like where we are, just, unexpected!

vicki the owner tells us that tomorrow is balingup field day, that would be fun but we're here for a run.

then vicki leaves for the nursing home, where she will feed mother.

saturday: up at six, out by seven, running from harris river dam by 8:30.

i'm reminded how nice it it to run along a bush trail.

it takes a while to warm up, temp is 3C, im in shorts and running shirt. it takes a while till my fingers are warm.

i have a new gps watch, the old one runs flat even before i do.

the gps setup demands things that i dont want, still some work to do.

once we are actually ready to run -- the gps is simple and easy to use. 5.52km, it says. i forget how long we took. not a winning time but not the last to finish:-)

run done, we can relax.

we drive to collie, to a cafe, for coffee and a scone.

we buy a chicken roll to take home for lunch. plus some cupcakes from a stall, raising money to send high school kids on an overseas trip next year.

back home, we relax with a bath. the water drains into a ditch in the paddock, a good system, no need to waste the water.

temp is about 18C, chilly but pleasant.

now we do nothing till dinner.

nothing except look for a geocache that is. I'll send this, then see how far it is. see if we should walk or drive.

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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