orienteering 1:06:41 [3] 3.4 mi (19:37 / mi) +12m 19:24 / mi
ahr:166 max:183
For something fun and new (well, old) my foot decided to cooperate and not hurt today, so instead I could go back to bemoaning my stupidly tight calves. Hooray? In all seriousness, though, this was a good outing for me at Mason Neck. Weather was perfect, and I managed not to make any of the giant wander-aimlessly-in-vague-directions mistakes that I historically have here. Not moving fast, because I'm out of shape, but steady enough, and maintained pretty good focus, except when I saw other people having trouble, then I started to second guess my own plan. I should know better.
Map run never detected the start, and there doesn't seem to be a way to start it manually, so my track didn't start until I switched over to normal running mode at control 1. Seems like there should be a relatively easy way to fix that, as it already automatically senses the finish, but asks if you want to keep going, I assume it's in case you pass close enough to the finish during your course to accidentally trigger it. There's probably also a way to manually start if I had my phone with me, but I rather like not having to bring a phone, since I'm lucky enough to have access to one of the gucci-er Garmin models.