Drove to NH. Full slate of courses and blue didn't seem too onerous at 6.8km, so might as well get my money's worth. Weather dry on drive up and at start. Took mostly trail route to #1 to get warmed up and into map. First 4 controls went smoothly, feeling strong & confident. Then a long leg to 5, continued to flow well, picking off intermediate points well, then about 2/3 of way through the skies opened up and ability to see terrain went with it. Slowed down and tried to stay on bearing, checking what features I could see at close range, but wound up a bit L, correcting fairly quickly. Ditto on #6, good line but at a slow walk and missing L again due to misreading features in terrain. Then on #7, picking off features on the line, crossed final two trickles and up into a diffuse saddle but no flag. Tried from a couple other angles (a very slow process) and kept coming back to same area. Maybe flag was there and I just couldn't see it, maybe on a parallel feature that I couldn't make out due to lack of vision. After 20 minutes or so I just decided to trail run my way back figuring better to get a physical workout in rather than a mostly blind slow walk in the rain which would have been of no benefit, even if I had finished. Picked up the last two controls on my way in, but skipped 7-11. Bummed to take a DNF, but glad I went just the same.
Walking50:19 2.81 mi (17:54 / mi) +27m17:24 / mi ahr:95 max:138 shoes: Bondi 5 2018
Showery walk with El... 28 year anniversary. Postponing dinner out since we figure local eateries will be packed tonight - Sat evening & holiday combo.
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Registered for the Billygoat. And Anna for the kid. She considered the full, but would be well over 3.5hrs, so kid it is...
Bike - Road2:11:59 28.3 mi (4:40 / mi) +405m4:28 / mi ahr:117 max:164 weight:76.3kg shoes: Warbird
Parked at MCC in Manchester, wanted to explore how far along 84 the newish bike trail went. Then back to MCC and up Charter Oak Greenway to the notch. I've run the new segment of trail, but hadn't ridden it. Original plan was just to come back down which would have been sweet - downhill on new pavement, but opted to take Hop River Trail & Cheney Trail to add some dirt. Then picking my way back through Manchester.
{edit} and I've now ridden my bike more than all of 2018 or 2017. Both pretty lame years...
Orienteering race (Prospect Hill Green) 42:50*** 3.01 mi (14:14 / mi) +160m12:13 / mi ahr:137 max:174 spiked:12/13c shoes: 280 ORoc 2017
Didn't feel like I had much zip, particularly on the climbs, but it felt really, really good to run in the woods rather than just plodding down the road to the lake. Fairly clean run, don't have any maps to reference, but took pretty straight routes on a lot of them, including the one over the hill, down through the cliffs to the boulder pair by the small pond. Don't regret the decision to go over, but it was a lot of work. One bobble in the southeast corner, stayed on contour initially, then taking trails R of line. When I got close to the control I cut the corner and wound up picking up the wrong trail going between two marshes rather than around the left side of marsh and got 30m S of control near the ruins and had to backtrack.
Orienteering race (Prospect Hill Yellow) 22:06** 1.9 mi (11:38 / mi) +80m10:17 / mi ahr:149 max:167 weight:76.7kg shoes: 280 ORoc 2017
Goal was for an hour or so of activity, so traded in my green map (they were out) for a yellow and attempted a "hilly sprint". Not a lot in the legs, but got around ok, walking most of the climbs. Glad I went out for extra.
Stopped at BT Smokehouse in Sturbridge and had a very robust BBQ burrito plus extras, so I must have been pretty dammed dehydrated since my weight is down from this AM, even 4 hours later.