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Monday Sep 19, 2016 #
5 PM
Orienteering race 24:45 [3] 1.52 mi (16:17 / mi)
I finally made it to Mike's Maze. Thanks to Peter for having a Part Deux this year. It was everything that I thought it would be, plus about 3" of water over most of the maze. When I first entered the maze for the Classic course, I was confronted with a huge pond with no way around it because it went to the edges of the corn rows. So, I plunged through with water splashing up to mid shin. After that, I didn't even think about the water, except for the few times when I almost went down. Mud is slippery!
I would have been slightly faster on this Classic course if I had started just a tad later. Peter gave the critical numbering information after I started, so when I got to what I thought was the first control, the number on it was 31. I checked my map, and there was no indication of any control numbers, other than 1 - 19. I thought I might be at the wrong control, so I wandered a bit, until I saw George Minarik, and he gave me the low down..."add thirty." Got it. After that, it went better.
I would have been slightly faster on this Classic course if I had started just a tad later. Peter gave the critical numbering information after I started, so when I got to what I thought was the first control, the number on it was 31. I checked my map, and there was no indication of any control numbers, other than 1 - 19. I thought I might be at the wrong control, so I wandered a bit, until I saw George Minarik, and he gave me the low down..."add thirty." Got it. After that, it went better.
Orienteering race 11:14 [3] 0.73 mi (15:23 / mi)
The Sprint where you could take the controls in any order. I think I made okay choices; probably not the optimal route. It was a little difficult to keep track of the ones I had been to already.
8 PM
Orienteering 24:29 [3] 1.22 mi (20:04 / mi) +1m 20:01 / mi
The Night race...after dinner. I had a spinach salad for dinner, and I could feel it in my stomach. I was allotted 13 skips, which made me very happy, until I realized during the first map that it was almost impossible to keep track of how many skips I had taken, and where I was in the course. I stopped at the map exchange to try to figure out how many I had taken and which ones to take on the second map, but when I started to move again, I realized I had sunk down deep into the mud, and I almost fell as my feet were stuck in the mud. Luckily, I just stumbled awkwardly for a few steps before I got going again...thank goodness it was dark!
On the second map, I just skipped whatever looked like it would be a long route and stopped trying to keep track. When I finished, I had no idea if I had gone over or under on the skips, but then Peter said I had taken 13 skips! A miracle.
It felt so good to take off my wet shoes and socks!!
On the second map, I just skipped whatever looked like it would be a long route and stopped trying to keep track. When I finished, I had no idea if I had gone over or under on the skips, but then Peter said I had taken 13 skips! A miracle.
It felt so good to take off my wet shoes and socks!!