Course set-check-pick 4:45:00 [1] *** 14.0 km (20:21 / km)
shoes: Adidas $42 Cleats
Finished all the distant controls, and put SI units on all the stands I planted last week. I still have a few maps to bag; I have to seal all the map bags, nearly 300 of them (to handle contingencies with people/teams); and I have to come up with a .csv file that will import teams and map assignments into the SportIdent OE software. I've had really good luck importing entries into OE, but this one is forked, and that makes it somewhat harder---certainly more complex. We have very few solid entries---Is is normal for teams to be put together so late? To handle that, I'm planning to make an entry for each map with a name like "Bib 401". So we can assign bibs and just send them out, and backfill the names later. Obviously, this is not the best way, and I'm hoping we can import a file that will require a minimum of changes afterwards.
Well, that's my break. Back to work! I'm hoping to get to bed by 3am. (I had been running a pretty heavy sleep deficit, but I caught up some last night---I went to bed at 3:30am, and got up at 10am. I'm so glad I did that.)
Where's my ibuprofen? Ahh. Here it is... My back muscles are sore.
Oh, I almost forgot. I did 1 hour of this course setting in deep darkness with a dinky 3 LED headlamp. Night O is so much easier with a big light. I shot across some flat green, got confused, and spent 8 or 10 minutes relocating. It turns out I missed about 60m right, and I thought I was left. It's really hard to relocate when you can only see about 20 feet in front of you.