Orienteering 1:27:19 [1] 6.71 km (13:01 / km) +114m 12:00 / km
shoes: 201006 Inov-8 X-talon 212
Vetting controls at the Fells. I don't own a car, though I had one this weekend for the Night-O and a visit to IKEA. Route 2 is usually my standard for miserable commute traffic, since I witness it occasionally. However, Route 2 is dwarfed by the cesspool of gridlock and inefficiency that is Interstate 93. The commute into Boston was bad even at 8:45, when I drove home. I am quite certain that biking would have been faster.
Orienteering in the early morning is exhilarating. I will report statistics on control counts after the meet, but it was not a small number. I am considering making a "course setting/planning" category, because I have spent considerable time in the woods over the past year doing just that. While it's beneficial, it's not nearly as constructive as focused training, and my current logging inflates my O-time. Today, for example, I would often spend a minute or two in the control circle checking out features around me. I only ran at speed to "commute" between controls.
I weighed in at 185.6 after the session and some rehydration, though I imagine my current average weight is around 188-190.
One nice aspect of the Fells is that there is no poison ivy. The green briar found it and killed it all.
Control count = 129