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Sunday Jun 14, 2015 #
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My flight to JFK got delayed such that I would've missed my connection to Seattle, and thus I continue to be at the party after the party's over and trespass on Alex and Ed's generous hospitality.
Reason given for 2.5-hour delay: "There are too many planes trying to land." This, after all passengers are on board and plane is ready to pull away from gate. The lesson, as always: New York is a crazy place and you should never trust anything involving New York to make any damn sense at all.
Reason given for 2.5-hour delay: "There are too many planes trying to land." This, after all passengers are on board and plane is ready to pull away from gate. The lesson, as always: New York is a crazy place and you should never trust anything involving New York to make any damn sense at all.
10 AM
Orienteering race 9:19 [4] ** 2.2 km (4:14 / km) +35m 3:55 / km
21c
Morning race @ Boston Common. Superfast venue - 4:14/km is most definitely the fastest I have ever orienteered in my life. Will and I tied, though we ran different forkings.
1 PM
Orienteering race 13:22 [4] ** 3.0 km (4:27 / km) +35m 4:13 / km
21c
Afternoon A-meet/national ranking event/Boston Sprint Camp finale! There was a chase start, a fancy start gate, and an auto-finish, which were totally cool. Course setter maestro Schirminator saved his route choices for this one, so there were a few more left/right decisions than the morning. Still a very very fast race. I pushed real hard and actually felt pretty strong, but young Will was a touch speedier and got me by eight seconds. It's the first defeat Black Magic has suffered at the hands of a non-European.
As the Sunday winner, Will won the delicious apple pie, while I, as the overall points winner, won the delicious chocolate banana bread (prizes courtesy of Alex). I leave it to you, dear reader, to decide who got the better end of the deal.
(The answer of course is that we both got the better end.)
As the Sunday winner, Will won the delicious apple pie, while I, as the overall points winner, won the delicious chocolate banana bread (prizes courtesy of Alex). I leave it to you, dear reader, to decide who got the better end of the deal.
(The answer of course is that we both got the better end.)