Orienteering 1:11:40 [3] 3.7 mi (19:22 / mi) +442ft 17:24 / mi
shoes: Montrail Mt Masochist Mar 2011
Mendon Green course. Very bad outing. DNF because I never found #5. Thought I was approaching it OK, contours were making sense, but no control. I tried going further, finding where I thought I was on the map, and re-attacking, but still no control. By then, I decided not to devote any more time to it, because I had come there with three other people (Cheryl, my son Greg, and grandson Freddie) who were all doing Yellow and I know would have been waiting for me even if I hadn't messed up. Plus, the area of the woods I was in had very heavy undergrowth of the kind that threatened to trip you on every step, and I didn't need another broken rib ...