Orienteering race 1:35:29 [4] 13.95 km (6:51 / km) +70m 6:41 / km
ahr:152 shoes: Brooks Adrenaline ASR
After narrowly beating Andrew by 13 sec on Sat, my desparate plan was to run a clean race (my usual plan) and see if a longer course with lots of points would result in Andrew making an error to compensate for his much faster speed. I felt pretty good when I finished...my errors were small (couple of hesitations, two 90 degree errors on trails that I caught pretty quickly, and one off-at-45-degrees because I had seen my first fellow competitor in a long time). Alas, it was not to be...he got me by a minute and some change for both Day 2 and overall. Overall, the cadets seemed to make fewer errors and I didn't hear of any 10+ minute errors for the whole weekend. I hope we are starting to see a general increase in O-performance across-the-board. We'll see. I think my fall performance has done what I intended...show that clean nav can more than make up for raw speed, which even the slow cadets have on me.
