Orienteering (Night) 1:54:35 [2] 4.25 mi (26:58 / mi) +106m 25:01 / mi
Night O, Jim Arsenault set it up, 12c, take in order but skip as many as one wished. I skipped 4, was still out 114' (missed #9 which was disappointing, not sure why since I felt I was in the right place but my light failed to illuminate the marker) - I might have been a few contours low. Perspective can be odd at night. My LED quit at 93’ - I didn’t think it would make 110’ tho fully charged. My spare was “a candle in the darkness” but got to 11 and 12 anyway & visually limped along the swamp to the road & finally finish. Time spent in those woods w/o the obligatory spare would be interesting. I saw virtually no one during the time I was in the woods: only the two who finished 1,2 (E Childs & a young Swede) and the light of another runner at #11.
Got stung 3 times at the first point. A sharp, “smallish-type" pain left knee, then right, then left again - that was when I saw what appeared to be a yellow jacket.
I was not pleased with what I considered a marginal capability to keep in contact with the map. A properly fitting head lamp whose beam reaches out sufficiently far w/o continual adjusting is essential. It's time to buy a few new ones - several because they are dirt cheap now.
Going to bed, the “loo” truck was hard at work emptying a toilet at the end of parking, 2230 on a Saturday night. Slept marginally due to cramps, hard floor with mats escaping 'assigned duty' and maybe the rain which finally did fall fairly hard - though sleeping in a tent in rain is generally a pleasant experience. Needed motrin, had none with me.