Orienteering race (Willow Glen) 1:29:23 [4] ** 16.33 km (5:28 / km)
shoes: Adidas Thrasher 2 M
A Christmas-light-O through the eerily similar, easy-to-get-hopelessly-lost-and-confused-in, grid-like streets of the Willow Glen neighborhood. Each "control" was a house with a particularly noteworthy light display, and multiple choice questions on clue sheets acted as "punch cards".
It was a Score-O, and the time limit for my category was 90 minutes, which I made by a fraction of a minute. My pace includes numerous stops made to write down the answers to the questions; also, some houses (especially those on long streets without crossings) were a little difficult to find. It was my first time running with a headlamp since that night at Diablo Valley College; a haircut would have helped... (-;