Orienteering (Foot) 1:14:36 [4]
slept:8.0 weight:174.5lbs (sick)
Manassas Battlefield Park, VA; Groveton Parking Area. Peggy, Paul, Max and I enjoyed some time outdoors. It was about 79F when I started just after 2pm. Before I'd gone 100m, my head started throbbing. My thighs, hurt yesterday, still hurt but not as much. I wondered if I'd be able to finish. I settled into a steady pace and just kept going. Eventually, my stomach started bothering me too. I made a slight error at #2, then backed out to avoid the deadfall, then was hitting things pretty good till #12. At #12, some unmapped deadfall made me back out and go around again. I got confused on the way to #13 and kept reading the wrong side of the ridge. After a loop there, I finished the rest well but slow. I was glad to have finished at all. I enjoyed the new area. The subtled 2.5m contours coupled with a mix of open woods, rough and open fields and some rock features made this a pretty good area. The map could have used some fixing in places--deadfall extended beyond what was mapped and broken rock walls were mapped as stony ground or not at all. Hopefullly I'll recover from this illness soon.