Orienteering 2:48:57 [3]
Raid the Hammer (team name: Heading Yeast) with my daughter Sarah and a fellow pastry-chef friend Grace - both rookies.
We made it through the muddy sprint and headed to the Cat In-Cat Out where Grace got a taste of thick woods for the first time. It went fairly well and we headed to the matrix with the girls going for 'c' and 'd' while I went for the other two. I bobbled and ultimately met them on the road with tales of Grace having gone in to thigh-deep water to get 'd'; spirits were high nonetheless. After a bit of conversation, the girls wanted the Bermuda Triangle so that they could say they did a "double-black diamond" even though it was worth only 50 points (what was the thinking behind that - it was just too short?) We made it to B3 only to find two (then three) other teams claiming it was B2. Yelling "Check the numbers! Check the numbers carefully!" we finished this section quite cleanly. Took a long slog to the other map and made our only real error going for 'b' in the "blue square triplet" [Came out, crossed the road and turned west instead of east when the flag wasn't at the first cliff; lost 2-3 minutes.] Time was low and ankles were sore, so we bagged the second triplet, got #3, and #4 and went for the bonus controls (see comment on Bash's log) before finishing. Girls slept the whole way home after we cleared customs, but later said that it was a great race!