Orienteering race 1:15:24 [3] 8.0 km (9:26 / km)
Ran the Beer Chase, Quantico's traditional end of the season race. Peggy designed a 3-loop course on the Jug Bay map, with the required beer drinkings at the beginning and after each loop. It was quite evident why I will never live up to the reputation of my stepfather...I was a miserable failure at drinking the beer. I was amazed at the speed with which some of these people were downing their drinks!
The orienteering was quite simple, although I did manage to drift right on the second control of the first loop. We could skip a control on Loop A (3.134km), so I skipped #8 mainly because I had forgotten about this little feature of the loop until I was almost finished and there were only 9 controls. On Loop B (3.22-3.33km), there was a control forking where you could pick which fork you wanted to take. I think nearly everyone picked the southern most fork. Loop C was more like a sprint as it was only 1.66 km with Yellow level orienteering.
All in all, it was a terrifically fun course in a beautiful location -- Dave Linthicum's house right on Jug Bay -- site of an orienteering meet right before Peggy and Nadim's wedding. There were plenty of old-timers there, as well, with Hillary Cane paying a visit from Tasmania.