Saturday night was spent in the woods of Scioto Trails State Park as part of a 6 hour orienteering race. I've done this once before, but the last time there was daylight to work with! This time, we started at 8pm and it quickly became dark so it was on with the headlamps and flashlights to try and find the checkpoints. An hour before the race we were given maps with the locations of the checkpoints so we were able to come up with a game plan. The checkpoints are 12"x12" orange and white "things" with about a 1"x1" reflective piece of tape on it. Very hard to see when it's pitch black out!
The team of my wife and I finished 9th out of 15. We really had no expectations except to have fun. My legs are completely trashed from running through sticker bushes and I had long pants on. Ouch.
Link to race website...
http://nsfadventures.com/
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