Orienteering race 56:21 [4] 8.1 km (6:57 / km) +110m 6:31 / km
QOC Beer Chase Blue - made it around first loop mostly just a little behind Ken and Dan Quinn and just ahead of Mike Berry, Eddie having missed slightly to the left on the first control and not caught up thereafter. Lost sight of Ken just before the end of the loop and never saw him again while Dan, doing Red, split off and I apparently lost Mike around the 3rd control on the second loop - presumably I pulled away just enough on the long leg to 3 that he was able to completely independently make a big mistake on the short leg to 4. Saw Eddie on his way to the 2nd loop go control as I started on my third loop so figured I was in serious danger of being run down but he was apparently, as a protest of sorts, taking a 3 minute penalty each loop rather than do the rather tame/lame obstacle that had been inserted at the end of each loop just before the drinking. Maybe best to keep the event purely orienteering and drinking, though it might have been fun to insert some test of skill analogous to making a basketball three-pointer (say something with a bushel basket and tennis balls - or a long put at a disc golf target) that would have been hard enough to do just after running while affected by alcohol (or not) to make it at least possible the penalty would be quicker (particularly if you were allowed to study the map during the penalty).
