Orienteering race 1:20:00 [3] *** 6.3 km (12:42 / km)
shoes: VJ's
Batona: Wharton State Park - reminded me of the forest back home in Bucharest (Baneasa) where I used to train back in the days. Flat, tons of trails, well, the blueberries were an added "bonus". So, that made quite easy courses (I mean, no matter what you did, if you ran 100m past your control, you hit the next trail :)
I did enjoy their fall colors (in WI all leaves are dead by now), but, the O in WI forests is still the best :)
Anyway, regarding my performance: my times definetely did not reflect the time I put into training lately. I could find a ton of reasons to blame on, but I'll skip to the good part: I did not feel exhausted!!Even after the long on Sunday, I was ready for 5 more k easily. So, it has to do with either stamina or no hills (I like to believe it's the first :)
It felt good, well, yeah, I was sick of hoping through the blueberries, so soon enough I was happy to take ANY trail route, even if it doubled the distance. Especially for the long legs (which I ran, on Sunday!)