On the bright side, I did the rec-white course with the girls, which turned out to be really fun. We started all together and Samantha would run a bit ahead, occasionally the wrong way because of having her map not-quite-oriented. I made her switch to doing that on the ground, which seemed to help. For the last few controls in the field, I let her go ahead by herself, and she did just fine there.
Eliza showed a lot of interest in actually trying to understand the map, and while she is not there yet, this is a big change from last time. This was a pretty long white course (2.9k), and there wasn't much whining and falling down except for a little towards the end. She is still having problems with side cramps when she runs for more than a minute, so we didn't do too much of that.
Clippy compasses are still working well, though one has a bubble now. Likewise for the bits of cardboard to help deal with the map, though since the cases were sealed we just wrapped the map around the cardboard rather than putting it inside. Also, the girls were excited to have race numbers, run in the chute, and see their names on the projector.
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video and some
photos, all from the head-cam (in hand). It is a new one, Hero3+. Better quality than the old 960 but after youtube compression and stabilization the difference is marginal.