Quantico Classic Day 2 -- Long / Red course at Beaver Dam Run.
I made an effort to run more today, since this was the last event of the weekend. It was humid, with some brief, light rain; my clothes were soaked by the time I finished -- yuck.
I wasn't especially fast (understatement!), but I was mostly able to navigate according to plan -- except for total brain failure in between #10 and #11. I intended to take the trail heading NNW (using the bend at the stream as my attackpoint), but somehow I ended up on the trail going ESE. WTF?!
Inefficient banana-like route to #12. Finding #16 without issue felt like a miracle. And, even though I started to worry about being OVT, I finished with ~17 minutes to spare and I wasn't even DFL on Red. :-P
A very fun weekend overall! I enjoyed getting to chat with o-friends (except for vmeyer, who seemed so busy that I didn't want to butt in and distract).
After my shower at a nearby rec center, I seriously considered laying down on the locker room bench for a nap -- I had a deeply exhausted, bone-tired feeling (maybe exacerbated by the extra-hot shower and poor sleep last night). But I rallied and made it to the airport.