Running (Street & Trail) 2:00 [3] 0.2 mi (10:00 / mi) +10m 8:39 / mi
slept:7.0 (injured) (sick)
Rocky Ridge State Park, PA (near York, PA). It took near 4 hours to drive up to York with the slowest part being the last 30 miles between Gettysburg and York. I had just enough time to register, run to the bathroom and run to the start.
Orienteering race (Foot) 35:02 [4] ** 4.3 km (8:09 / km)
spiked:9/9c (injured) (sick)
Mid-Atlantic Championships at Rocky Ridge State Park (near York, PA). Since I was starting after noon and the relays were to be in the afternoon, I only had time to do an Orange course. I started with Peggy who ran Yellow. I ran it with just a few hesitations and one loss of map contact where I thought I was running on a parallel trail. I made no errors. I won the course by 7 minutes but there was low turnout. I felt winded in a couple of places. It was very nice to get into the woods. It was about 50F. The navigation seemed pretty easy with the leaves being down except when in amongst the moutain laurel. It was odd running without my watch and doing pin punching--the band is broken. I was so late starting that they had already finished an awards presentation before I was done--I missed out on my chocolate prize.
Orienteering race (Foot) 22:15 [4] *** 2.9 km (7:40 / km)
spiked:7/7c (injured) (sick)
Mid-Atlantic Championships at Rocky Ridge State Park (near York, PA). I had been signed-up for QOC's second relay team. I was supposed to lead-off. Before I'd started off on my earlier Orange course, someone said the relay was going to be start at 2pm. I was thinking it was just after noon when I started the Orange course but it really was already after 1pm. So, 5 minutes after I'd finished my first race, I was supposed to start the relay. Instead, Victor Lin led off for our team and came-in 3rd. Peggy took the second leg and kept this position, about 10 seconds behind 2nd (DVOA). I was slow to orient the map and lost contact as I started off. Ignoring the trails initially, I kept a straightish bearing and soon zeroed-in on Florin T. and someone else ahead. At one point, I got very close to Florin. However, trying some different routes, I averaged being about the same distance apart from him until the last control. On that leg, I went a bit higher to avoid a reentrant and to avoid what looked to be some greener terrain; Florin finished about 15-20 seconds ahead and was much stronger than I was this day. My time is estimated from his which was 22:03. It was fun. I was weak. It would have been nicer to have been in better shape. In the club competition, QOC came in 2nd place, only 12 points behind DVOA. We had a few likely points winners who didn't make it due to illness and schedule conflicts.