Cycling 32:00 [3]
Biking out to Peggy and Nadim's place.
Orienteering 2:20:00 [1]
Exploring a section of Seneca Creek State Park on the shore of the Potomac and the adjacent McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area. All extremely thick except where corn or other crops were being grown (not sure how they square that with the purpose of a WMA) - useless for O so this was just a long, hot, very low intensity run.
Running 1:00:00 [2]
shoes: NB856
Nadim and I headed upstream on Seneca Creek to the Schaeffer Farm area containing a significant network of mountainbike trails. The area as a whole is fairly big (around 4 square kms) though a significant amount of the northern half is cornfields and fenced-in pasture. Nadim scouted on his mountain bike; I ran, mostly sticking to the trails. There's O potential but I'm less positive than Nadim about the area - runnability was merely OK in most areas and there wasn't much other than contour features. It was also very steep over most of the area I saw. Beginner courses might be a bit of a problem due to the layout of the trail network (very little branching until you're a long way from the parking) and even more so due to the high level of mountain bike traffic - I had no problems but mixing in a lot more pedestrians could be more of a problem. Also, the parking lot wasn't huge - mountain bikers plus orienteers could easily exceed its capacity.
Cycling 38:00 [2]
Cycling back home with grocery shopping on the way.