Orienteering race 2:00:29 [3] *** 11.7 km (10:18 / km)
spiked:7/15c
First time racing on a 1:15000 map. That and all the tricky contours gave me a lot of difficulty.
1. Fine, Hesitated a few times
2. Parallel error due to misreading contours
3. Went past it, struggled reading contours
4. Fine
5. Fine, just slow
6. Running with a west point guy. Understood the map ok. Kept veering North but compass kept me on track
7. One of my better legs - read the 3 reentrants then found the rocks
8. Terribly slow going up and over the ridge. Vegetation seemed thicker than white too. Climbed straight up the next hill rather that follow the valley
9. Fine
10. Fine
11. Map showed 2 streams crossings on route. I thought I crossed two streams then came to a third. After a lot of head scratching, determined it was the 2nd stream. Still not sure how that happened.
12. Went straight there but kept getting disoriented, pausing to reorient
13. I must have gone right by it. Spent a bunch of time higher up the slope trying to figure out where I was.
14. Went down the reentrant NW of 13 thinking it was the one NNW of 13 that lead to 14, got confused again.
15. Fine
16. Spent way to long trying to find a good stream crossing point. Should have just jumped where I came to it. I blame the ankle