okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Friday, October 12, 2007
Rambling of a strange mind
Mary handed me a map this evening and asked, "do you think that route from 8 to 9 is too far out of the way?" I looked at the map and took a quick look at the route choice drawn in. After a little bit, I said, "I think I'd have gone straighter - not as far around for the safer attack."
A leg later in the course caught my eye and I looked at it. I thought, "hey, Mary's course had the same leg as I had, I remember running to that control and poking my eye on a branch."
It turns out the map Mary handed me wasn't a course she'd run, it was a course I'd run. Two strange things:
1. I looked at the route I'd actually taken from 8 to 9 and decided I wouldn't do that (even though, I did).
2. At just a quick glance I recognized another leg from the course and immediately recalled getting jabbed by a stick (it was a bad enough injury that I had to visit the emergency room to get the wound glued together).
I'm annoyed that I could spend some time studying a leg I ran and not realize I ran it. I'm surprised that just glancing at another leg would bring back such a strong memory.
The mind is strange. Or maybe it is just my mind that is strange.
Iceland snapshot of the day
Today's snapshot is a row of turf buildings at the base of a cliff. I don't remember where it was.
