Running 10:00 [1]
A bit of jogging around setting controls for a Night-O for first and second graders. In retrospect, *what* was I thinking? This was the first time orienteering for many of the first-graders. I didn't have any reflective material on the controls. It was really really cold and windy. The experience could have put them off orienteering for life.
I guess we were thinking that we could build on their planetarium field trip, where they learned how to find the north star. But it was partly cloudy and at the start we couldn't see the big dipper or the north star. So we used compasses instead.
Each kid went with an adult. All 18 kids finished the course, even though half-way through the course a number of parents hinted to Dave (who was running around checking in with teams and helping) that they might quit early. Times for the 1.1-km course ranged from 21 to 59 minutes. Their (phenomenal) teacher, Linda, has a habit of expecting a lot from the kids, and the kids have a habit of living up to those expectations, and I think that's why they did so well.