Orienteering race 1:03:51 [3] ***** 3.4 km (18:47 / km) +155m 15:18 / km
14c shoes: Icebug olx
I didn't have high expectations for this event (in fact, I was terrified of it), and this time expectations met reality. I went slowly and got to #1 just fine, but Ernst Linder caught me there. We went to 2 more or less together, and I made a bad route choice to #3, not seeing the trail in the rocks and cliffs. Had to relocate twice. I didn't totally trust the swamps, so when I found a wet spot, I wasn't sure it was mapped. But then I found one with a control in it, which was surely mapped, and and that finally got me back on track. A few other times I lost contact with the map, and it took some time to regain it.
I'm tempted to blame the rain, but in fact I could see pretty well. I wore a hat, which kept my glasses dryer than they would otherwise have been, and I carried a handkerchief folded up in my e-punch hand to wipe off the magnifier and glasses. The cloth stayed dry the whole time, even when I fell and dropped it once.
You had to be right on to find controls, and it was a lot of fun when that was working for me. Pretty tough when it wasn't. I think I got better at it as I went along, but I still have no idea how to do it at speed. I wish I had one of these in my back yard to practice on.