Mtn Biking, Orienteering, CP and The Cop

Today's Raceday Rush/Phat Chicks session was amazing! We met at Hilton Falls and reviewed orienteering tips and tricks from Bryan Connell. Once again, Bryan was patient with us, and even laughed at some of our colourful jokes/comments. The exercise today was to go to 4 Checkpoints (CP) and find colour balls (the same ones that taunted me during the canoe session a couple of weeks ago). I was determined that I wasn't going to let that happen this time. haha. We were given the bearings for 2 of the checkpoints where we had to use our compass, the other 2 we had to look in certain areas. My partner, Gail and I mapped out our plan. We got to the first check point and decided that we were spending too much time looking for it, so we continued on to the next checkpoint. This checkpoint was located at Hilton Falls near a fire pit (or a cookie lol). Shane met us at The Falls and stayed with us for a brief stretch. After we had found the ball and continued on to CP 3, we realized that we didn't even look at The Falls. Before the exercise started Neil was telling us how nice The Falls were. I guess Gail and I were concentrating on the task at hand! Then we heading to the most northerly CP. It was a nice ride on mostly wide trails, with one small portion of singletrack. Half way to the CP, Neil caught up to us with his stealthlike biking skills and scared me. I hope he edits what I yelled from his helmet cam recording. After finding the CP at the firepit and making fun of Neil (again) and his "interesting" video we took off to the next CP. It was up a singletrack trail that was muddy, Gail and I opted to get off our bikes. We were passed by Shannon, Susie, Bryan and Shane. For some reason, I worried that Susie would hide our bikes on us (funny after we all finished, Susie commented that it crossed her mind!). We had to make it back to the first CP. We looked for several minutes and decided we were too far into the forest and rode further down and finally located our final CP! We exited the forest and Neil was at the bottom telling us we were the first Phat Chicks to return!! We couldn't believe it! SWEET! It was a great day, lots of fun and my partner rocks!
I got my heart rate monitor today, so it will be interesting to see how it works.
Even getting pulled over by a cop on my way home didn't ruin my day. I forgot to get my validation sticker a couple of months ago. Duh. He just gave me a warning and I have to get it done with 72 hours. Guess where I will be at some point tomorrow. haha.