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Sunday Dec 4, 2022 #
9 AM
orienteering 20:00 [1] ***
2c
Too sick to finish the 22nd Possum Trot (Covid negative, but feeling pretty crappy). But I figured it was better to be a DNF than a DNS.
I put a lot of mental energy in to being ready for the start. Fritz had said the start triangle was hard to find. So I had a good mental image of what to look for. I spotted the triangle right away and started moving to the first control. I took maybe 5-6 jogging steps. I was in the lead. That means I've held the lead of all 22 Possum Trots (even if just for a few seconds in more recent years).
I did the first two controls. I walked all but those first few steps. Then went back to the finish. Drove home. Took a nap.
Being at the back of the group on the way to 1 was interesting. You could see the control flag from about 400 meters away. But the line of runners was all aiming off to hit a trail and then turn right. It wouldn't save much time to go straighter, but it was kind of interesting that nobody ahead of me was going straight to the flag.
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I put a lot of mental energy in to being ready for the start. Fritz had said the start triangle was hard to find. So I had a good mental image of what to look for. I spotted the triangle right away and started moving to the first control. I took maybe 5-6 jogging steps. I was in the lead. That means I've held the lead of all 22 Possum Trots (even if just for a few seconds in more recent years).
I did the first two controls. I walked all but those first few steps. Then went back to the finish. Drove home. Took a nap.
Being at the back of the group on the way to 1 was interesting. You could see the control flag from about 400 meters away. But the line of runners was all aiming off to hit a trail and then turn right. It wouldn't save much time to go straighter, but it was kind of interesting that nobody ahead of me was going straight to the flag.
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