I suspect fitness was the biggest difference, although perfect running would close the gap a bit (but as Waller notes, the other guy could have mistakes to take out too) given my time loss on: corridor o (reentrant east of corridor reentrant), man made cave (couldn't see flag, didn't immediately crawl), aerial pickup overrun, aerial control bad bearing, and water cart water loss and slowness.
Orienteering2:55:21*** 6.69 mi (26:14 / mi) +188m24:07 / mi ahr:126 max:175 16c shoes: Roclites 295 2
Fun semi orienteering intervals with occasional team nav with w4j, Sydney, and Kevin.
Rick didn't mention he had snow! Holding out on us! I could have brought skis!
I was mostly pleased to see that things made sense, although I did incorrectly skip a correct soft reentrant because I can't count hill tops. (Had there been a flag I think I would have been okay). Hit trail then immediately fixed, Sydney ftw on that.
I'm not sure the last one was right, so I'll likely delete when I put up a version, and be very curious as to what the QR says.....oddly we all converged on that same possibly not right spot.
Some interesting results on one of the long legs - Kevin did a very roundabout trail route, and was not far behind at all with insanely high reliabilitity. Interesting!
After my trip to Atlanta, I was wondering what was better, since yes I saved time, but then I locked myself out of extreme o long.
NAOC does feature super cheap flights from the D to the Boston. But then it's a ~2.5 hour drive up.
So...30 minute drive to DTW, to arrive ~2 hrs early for flight (park & check in with sufficient allowance - I don't like to cut it close), then 2 hr flight, then 1 hr disembark and car pickup, then 2.5 hour drive = 8 hrs travel time
Drive is ~11 hours.
700 miles * 2 = 1400 / 20 mpg = $200 gas. (My cars are all old so they don't depreciate.)
Flight is $100. Rental cars are not as cheap at ATL (no Mustang this go around!), so another $200-300, plus local gas, plus $50 to park at DTW...
Now driving can get old at that range. The chunky nature of flying is certainly easy to tolerate and the end of flight driving is easy enough. Not sure what the premium is for not having stiff legs from a long haul!
But cheap flight is Spirit, which means a pair of shoes and a compass as total luggage. Driving permits full flexibility.