Jumping At Landy Multi-Cache
Colbases: Unfortunately some work has been done at Landy Field and GZ has been removed along with the logbook:(. Will have to archive as the hide cannot be replicated with the missing infrastructure. Congrats to those who found it!
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This is a relatively straight forward multi at John Landy Field but the difficulty rating has been raised due to high muggle activity at various times.
John Landy was 1 of 6 Geelong Athletes who competed at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. The others were Ron Blackney, John Chittick, Robert James Joyce, Don MacMillan & John Vernon. At the time, there was no Athletics track in Geelong. At a dinner on Jan 15, 1957 to honour these athletes (all members of Geelong Guild Athletics Club), John Landy lamented in his speech that in order to compete internationally, local athletes required a local track. And so began the push that would see the construction of the John Landy Field Athletics Track begin 4 years later.
John Landy was part of the race to be the first to break the 4 minute mile in the mid 1950’s. He was beaten to that feat by Roger Bannister but became the 2nd person to run sub 4 by running 3.58.0 on June 21, 1954, a world record at the time that stood for 3 years. Shortly after this, Landy & Bannister went head to head at the 1954 Commonwealth Games in Vancouver in a race dubbed the “Race of the Century”. Bannister would win after passing Landy with 100m to go. The picture used for this cache shows that moment that was subsequently immortalized in the form of a bronze statue that still stands in Vancouver.
Today JLF is used by multiple groups and is busy for large parts of the year. Geelong Guild Athletics Club who played a major role in its initial development, continue to compete here on weekends during the summer months against four other senior clubs (Bellarine, Chilwell, Corio & Deakin Athletics Clubs). With so much activity, a large part of the challenge with this cache will be avoiding the attention of muggles. Arriving in your best athletic outfit & jogging a few laps may be a good approach!
If you're not familiar with athletics, you'll need to know what a "steeple" is. They are the large (approx 3m across) black & white beams that runners jump over for the steeple chase race. One of them includes the water jump where many a tumble & hence swim has occurred!
To the cache itself:
You’ll need to start at the given co-ordinates. There is ample parking within the complex but take note of opening hours or your car might get locked in! You can access the complex on foot 24hrs a day.
You need to move around the track to answer the following questions that will give you A-F & thus the co-ordinates to GZ:
A: Number of letters in the name of the person for whom the bend is named at the starting co-ordinates minus 1.
B: Number of steeples at the track including the water jump at the start location.
C: The Pavilion at the opposite bend to the starting point is named after: C = 0 if Ron Palmer, C = 9 if WJP Wood.
D: Number of senior athletic clubs in Geelong.
E: Number of lanes that go the whole way around the track.
F: Number of letters in the surname of whom the Grand Stand is named?
GZ is located at:
S38 9.ABC
E 144 21.DEF
Good luck & take care with muggles!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
TM - Trg qbja ba lbhe xarrf.
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