Orienteering race 1:47:00 [3]
Terrible. Was not in a great mood, and quite distracted. Just before starting, talked with Guy about whether it might be possible to combine small schools from one school district where the K-8 schools are each small (in fact, they all end up at the same high school). So there are only 40 8th graders at each school, and I have 2 kids potentially interested in interscholastics, but they are at different schools. So I thought about that conversation a lot on my course.
And then right at the start, President Pete started talking to me about the next NEOC meeting, which also tapped into some stressful thoughts.
And then out in the woods a European waited by a control of mine to ask where we were. He looked like he should know what he was doing, and how to relocate, so I sort of brushed him off, physically actually, pushing him some, while also sort of showing him my map and saying "that's cheating!" Then I had to think about the interaction a lot for the rest of the course, like, why be such a big meanie, and, why did I even show him the map, and, what if I needed some kind of help, will he be mad at me forever? etc. And Americans vs others, different cultures. But especially I thought about Fair Play, and what was that anyway, and how nice it is when you can be in an environment where it feels like people are being fair, yet how often I get sucked into a sort of everyone-for-himself feeling, like getting on a bus or plane, or whatever. And that's in a land of plenty.