With high winds, temps near freezing and snow/sleet/rain mixture coming down, I knew it would take a long time to warm up after running for an hour - and then having to stay out in the mess for another 3+ hours taking picture. Solid recipe for hypothermia, so I reluctantly had to abandon my race plans. Dressed up warm with rain gear on top and umbrella for the camera. Hands were largely inoperable after 3.5 hours holding a metal camera body, but otherwise fared ok. Think I got some good shots. Have over 2000 images to process and sort through when I get back to CT.
Orienteering race 1:14:49*** 6.75 km (11:05 / km) +267m9:15 / km ahr:143 max:180 spiked:11/13c shoes: ORoc 290 Ultra 2021
First control ok, but then very shaky for next few. Unable to discern a difference between green and white woods and took me a bit to adjust to mapping. Latter part ok but the damage was done and the will to push wasn't there.
Orienteering race 17:35*** 2.91 km (6:02 / km) +30m5:45 / km ahr:160 max:179 spiked:19/22c shoes: Roclite 275 2020
Fun race, mostly clean but not as fast as I wanted, screwed up 7-9 - leaving 6 looked ahead and misread 9 as 6 and headed that way, corrected about 75% of the way there but then proceeded to take wrong level of multilevel path, then went to 8 instead of 7 realized error enroute to 9, so back to 7, then 8 again, then 9. Even with such a screwed up cluster of controls, I still managed 3rd on GreenX, only bested by a couple M18s. AP also shows me with an error in the chute, but I was under the assumption that a taped route was mandatory, so I followed the taped route which ran in a big arc whereas the straight line from GO to finish was quite a bit shorter.
Short walk with Anna, Hayden & CC Muffin - Hayden & Megan's new puppy. 8.5 week old short hair pointer/border collie mix. A slow stop-go-sniff-explore-entangle sort of walk. Very little actual distance covered.