PTOC event at Antioch. I walked most of it, with a few bouts of jogging. Mike wondered if I could contain myself, and not go running off, because it was an O race. I had no problem. It was interesting that Mike feels "competition mode" any time he is on a map, and sometimes has to turn it down a notch when it's just a training session. I have the opposite problem ,and need to turn it on sometimes. Such as a local sprint where i'm walking. Made a 180 leaving 1, and had some hesitations reading the map around 4.
Then came the maze in the woods.. I was not expecting wet muddy trails and tall grass. Or stream crossings. I was wearing sneakers, not O shoes, and I was afraid to slip. And the trails were not mapped correctly, which led to lots of confusions (although the mistakes at 10 and 12 were my own, not due to the map). This section was a fun change of pace, but a bit frustrating.
Hamstring was bit sore in the middle, so I walked more after that.
After the course, it was the annual PTOC meeting and pot-luck. But a few of us left to go to a sports bar to watch the Belmont race.
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