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Saturday May 25, 2013 #
9 PM
Orienteering race 1:38:27 [1] *** 4.3 km (22:55 / km) +64m 21:19 / km
11c shoes: Columbia Romero trail runners
Night-O at Hickory Run, Intermediate course. Planned to go out with Stacey and Zoe, and then my brother Ben showed up at the last minute, so invited him to.
A really nice course -- and no complaints from the 9 year-old either; she really liked it! The first 5 controls were definitely 'orange' level with a good ramp-up in difficulty. We probably wouldn't have found the first 4 without all the 'help' nearby. Since we were then behind (we were one of the last starts anyway) we did spike 5 which was a success! After that the rest of the controls were beginner level around the lake/picnic areas, which was a lot of fun -- we swung on the swingset at ~10:30 PM, and the last leg was right across the beach; very pretty!
What started as a tenuous flashlight situation became a mess--we had one good headlamp, one good 'spotter' light, and 4 random maglights with batteries of unknown provenance. Zoe had to have the good headlamp. The spotter needed a battery change partway through. The maglights were all fading by the end. Fun!
A really nice course -- and no complaints from the 9 year-old either; she really liked it! The first 5 controls were definitely 'orange' level with a good ramp-up in difficulty. We probably wouldn't have found the first 4 without all the 'help' nearby. Since we were then behind (we were one of the last starts anyway) we did spike 5 which was a success! After that the rest of the controls were beginner level around the lake/picnic areas, which was a lot of fun -- we swung on the swingset at ~10:30 PM, and the last leg was right across the beach; very pretty!
What started as a tenuous flashlight situation became a mess--we had one good headlamp, one good 'spotter' light, and 4 random maglights with batteries of unknown provenance. Zoe had to have the good headlamp. The spotter needed a battery change partway through. The maglights were all fading by the end. Fun!