Orienteering (Course Setting) 1:00:00 [3] 3.7 km (16:13 / km) +55m 15:06 / km
slept:6.0 weight:180.5lbs
Great Falls Park, MD. I set out 4 more controls, the start, and 2 finishes. It was another nice sunny day. Starting out it was about 50 F. Probably the hardest part of this day was walking over (off the clock) from where I parked with both the box of electronic controls, and the box of unused flags. I got into the park early enough to not have to wait and got a spot almost midway out, but because the lot filled quickly, others waited up to 40 minutes just to get in later on. I felt stronger to day and when I did run, I ran smoothly with some spring in my step. Running was hard because of the rocky stuff under leaves on steep hills, but running on the towpath was good. I'd checked out most of the control locations before setting them yesterday, but when I was setting the finish at a trail intersection, I had to be extra careful. A trail the intermediate runners would use had gone into disuse, and another which was intermittent previously, had become more trod upon. There were 275 pre-registered runners, a sell out to our permit level, and of those it seems that all but 4 showed-up.