Training Log Archive: AliC

Cascade Orienteering Vampire-O!!

At North Seatac Park. This was way more fun than I thought it might be. I'm not a big night orienteer, still kinda suspicious of score-O in general, and had no idea how the whole vampire thing was going to work out... But was a blast. Was vampire twice, pretty much in succession (although utterly failed to catch Patrick one of those times, oh and another time tried to vampire a group that had a holy pumpkin, whoopsie!), but didn't end up with a terrible card after the second time and went merrily along my way racking up controls, until I got to near the end and knew that there were still two way in the north-east I avoided earlier as they were majorly vampire-infested. So I snuck back for them, then snuck cross-country, avoiding spots I thought might be vampire hang-outs...

Decent orienteering, not so much flow, but thought about it a bit, I think map glances and planning are harder in the dark and score-o. Easier to night orienteer with a bright light (Nikolay's) - although sometimes was off to be sneaky.

And due to some luck, I won. Which apparently means I'm supposed to organize next year's Vampire-O here in Seattle...

Knee still tender afterwards although I avoided really running for the week- what is up? Think it's approaching doctor time even if it's really mild pain, because I just need to know if I should be even more careful or not.

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Warm up for Vampire-O. I came in costume, tore apart a dress from goodwill to be one of the monsters from Thriller. Fun times, and orienterable. But to really make it as a costume, would need the hair and makeup. Ah well.