Orienteering race 35:00 [4] **** 5.5 km (6:22 / km) +240m 5:13 / km
ahr:170 max:183 shoes: O-VJ-Grey-Spikes
Leg 3 of the US Relay champs, starting off 4.5 minutes behind the lead team (Sergei G.), 2 minutes after Karl A., with a known _chance_ of catching up to Sergei. Struggled a bit to push physically, and had 3 non-trivial issues, including a loop right through a bunch of randomly mapped light-to-dark-green (managed to find a way out in the right direction but reading the green was nearly impossible - lost 1.5 minutes there.) However, with each of 4 team members only losing ~2-3 minutes each vs. a perfect run, we managed to stay consistent, and WIN the US Relays champs!
This goal has been long in coming - I made several attempts to do this with BAOC, including, I think, 2 Silvers, 1-ineligible-team Win, but no Gold. This year, I didn't see a single BAOC representative.
Again a beautiful day, and awesome spectating made for a really fun race.
AJ & Michelle, both 6 years old, also picked up medals for 5th in the Jr. Jr. White-course relay (in the assisted-shadowing category? ;) . Looking at splits, I can see AJ lost about 3-4 minutes each on 2 controls. Apparently those were the only two where he needed to talk to his 'shadow' - Dan Barker - Thanks!
Oriana was quite jealous, and wants Mommy to be her Orienteering teacher so she can do the same kind of race next year!
Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] 3.0 km (5:00 / km)
shoes: O-VJ-Grey-Spikes
Misc. warmup/down (although not a well structured warm-down - too much fun spectating...)