Walking around checking and waking up about 10 controls. Nice morning. Then got recruited to help at the start, so spent about 3 hours there. Turned out to be a pleasure, as everyone passed through, got to say hello to lots of folks I hadn't seen for a while, plus dispel any notions that I might be in a rest home or have already passed... :-)
1 PM
biking - dark blue bike1:33:03 22.67 mi (4:06 / mi) +1404ft3:53 / mi ahr:125 max:153 weight:138.5lbs
I'd brought my bike with me, so when the start was done there seemed no reason not to head out for a ride. I had no plan of where to go, just a wish to do something like 20 miles. And I figured, with a starting point at the finish of the O' meet, there was no way to avoid some uphills toward the end of the ride.
Headed out the south access road, then kept going south, mostly into the wind. Didn't really know the roads, but I figured I could go out 10 miles, then turn around and come back. For a while I was on roads I'd never been on, but then I came out at a familiar spot, and decided to loop around through Southampton and a bit of Easthampton and do the climb up Mountain Road.
All worked out fine. Lots of either wide shoulders or smaller roads with minimal traffic, except for Mountain Road, aka Rt. 141. Minimal shoulder, steady traffic. But nobody came too close for comfort and pretty soon I was up, and heading back north on the access road, wind at my back. Fine way to finish. And for a moderately hilly ride (60' climb per mile), the pace was OK.