Orienteering race 36:58 [4] *** 3.9 km (9:29 / km) +105m 8:21 / km
spiked:14/19c
Middle distance, more like a sprint. B run, may 2.5’ errors, lack of concentration tho cannot claim that day’s travel events led to distraction - just preventable loss of concentration. Rain held off til about the last control. Very tired at end but glad I could run the whole way when possible. 34’ might have been max, today anyway.
#2 was under a bridge, did not know symbol.
#3 higher than I was looking (right at brook lvl)
#10 man-made obj by fence, came to fence, look r & l, don't see, wander a bit beyond, look back & finally see
#11 unaccountably drifted L, worst control
#17 bit L
Nice course, decent woods, no scratches, one tete-a-tete with a sizable branch. Sharon C & Bill Pullman at the finish as the fact that it was finally rainy/cold made its self known.
OOB at 0404 (well ahead of alarm), on Rte 93 at 0435, snowing hard, literally no southbound traffic for first 5 miles. Departure at 0658 (scheduled for 0615)...wait & de-icing and wait some more. So relieved when we lifted off, getting stuck in Manchester would have been depressing. Lifted away from a landscape of white-gray; maybe 10’ later later, we topped the clouds. The far vision and blue lifted spirits. Next sight was literally a tug on an inlet in the NY-NJ waterway. My belief was that I’d missed my connecting flt to Dayton which I thought departed at 0725 (but that was boarding, departing was 0800). Hadn’t slept, wasn’t on top of things - some things have been weighing rather heavily. Much to my surprise, upon exiting to speak with customer service re another flight, I noted Dayton on the very plane I had just departed with a new departure time of 0835! Wasn’t the original flight plan, don’t believe it was the same gate and did not look ahead to see adjacent gates and no mention before getting off about those continuing on to Dayton. But away again, this time into a rainy sky. Why o why Ohio... It will certainly do for this particular weekend, rain or shine.... a reprieve from an April Fool’s snow storm.
Sat in Newark for 90’ extra & had to get off plane will they fixed a bulb! Got to Oxford around 11:30. Tried motel from airport, someone answered, hung up (foreign). Went to Expedia, paid 140+ for 2 nights, got a car, finally figured out the way to “San Jose” and beat a hasty path out of Dodge but really didn’t know how far, just not too far. Finally found the place. locked lobby, WiFI would not work, dump of a place, real cost should have been about 55/night. Called lobby 2x, no ans, both times door locked. Being tired, i was no-bones-about-it irritable! Not in a let's-go-orienteering mind frame. Couldn’t easily locate Sat start but finally arrived after fumbling. Was 10.5 hrs from house to motal. Guess I was glad I could orienteer at all considering frame of mind. Sunny/blue on arrival but clouded over. Oxford is nice-enough a town in the middle of nowhere teeming with college kids. Miami U has many nice buildings.