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Friday Dec 14, 2012 #
Map Walk 8:00:00 [2] 24.0 km (20:00 / km)
shoes: Inov8 Roclite 295
Putting out controls for Oregon Ridge. This was a combined NJROTC/QOC meet. The Saturday NJROTC event had over 400 runners registered. For the courses, they had asked for 2 Yellows and 2 Oranges, with each pair of courses equal in all respects so they could declare an overall champion. That was interesting. I spent a lot of time tweaking the courses to make the twin pairs. Then at the very last minute, it turned out they had too many Green runners, so I made another Green course. The first attempt I sketched in it turned out to be exactly the same length and climb as the other Green. No problemo!
It took me a long time to get the controls out. I was walking, not pushing very hard, but still. At the end of the day, there was water that needed to get put out on the courses. Valerie had kindly volunteered to hump 12 gallons up to the top of the hill (how can I ever repay you?) and I backpacked it out to various widely-dispersed locations. Who designed these water stops, anyway? It turns out that 4 gallons of water rides pretty comfortably, but 5 is basically over the limit for me. Shoot, there was a time when I packed 120 lbs up to 11,000 feet in the Wind Rivers and became known as the Beast from the East. Oh well, the ravages of time and all that.
Anyway, it was about dark when everything was set. The drive home was nuts. I got stuck in 3 accidents. It was 2 hours just to get out of Baltimore. Great food back at home but couldn't eat much, too tired.
It took me a long time to get the controls out. I was walking, not pushing very hard, but still. At the end of the day, there was water that needed to get put out on the courses. Valerie had kindly volunteered to hump 12 gallons up to the top of the hill (how can I ever repay you?) and I backpacked it out to various widely-dispersed locations. Who designed these water stops, anyway? It turns out that 4 gallons of water rides pretty comfortably, but 5 is basically over the limit for me. Shoot, there was a time when I packed 120 lbs up to 11,000 feet in the Wind Rivers and became known as the Beast from the East. Oh well, the ravages of time and all that.
Anyway, it was about dark when everything was set. The drive home was nuts. I got stuck in 3 accidents. It was 2 hours just to get out of Baltimore. Great food back at home but couldn't eat much, too tired.