Wife, dog and I ran the Orange course at Turkey Run with QOC on Sunday. It was a great time! Way long. That 5.3km (whatever) turned into 15-ish. Yes, yes, I know they measure control to control as the bird flies, but jeez. I was all over the place.
I have no map for you because I tried the Livelox app. I started it, but was unaware you also have to attach your run to a course, so when I got back, no map. (Besides that, the app is kinda messed up. Lots of all black screens where the font and background are black.)
But, 16K steps. So that's kinda nice.
We ended up 6 out of 8 teams. Pretty good considering we had a dog on a leash who wanted to always walk the opposite side of the tree than my wife's chosen route. But I ended up finding all the controls without missing or passing them, which made me happy. (Almost 3 hours, so the last Orange I did at just under 2 hours is still my best.)
What I liked about this one was the first half took us far off. Made us use parts of the map that weren't trails. I aimed off going 1 to 2 and again 2 to 3. 4 to 5 was trails, 5 to 6 we took the trails then road all the way up to the rootstock then went direct southeast to 6. 6 to 7 we again took the road and trails, passing 8 which we saw (w00t!) on the way to 7, back to 8 right quick. For 9 we aimed off then up to 9, back to the creek down to 10 (which we saw on the way to 1), then 11 to finish, which I could barely find! So much fun.
This is it until after the New Year. Thanks QOC for a great start to the season. Great bunch of folks, so friendly and supportive of us newbies.
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