Orienteering race 15:58 [5]
shoes: 07 Saucony Kilkenny
US Sprint Champs - race 1
Campus sprint, dead easy terrain except I read the dark green hedges as forbidden to pass, so added 2-10 seconds onto each of several legs unnecessarily. Oops!
No high speed at all - can't move the legs fast enough. Was happy to be within ~10% of the winner (Falcon).
I suppose without the extras added in I'd be much closer to the winning time, but would not have been able to go under 15 min today, I imagine.
Orienteering race 17:00 [5]
US Sprint Champs - race 2
This was the forest sprint, and mad did I feel DEAD tired out there. Within about 4 controls, fatigue really set in and that was that.
On the long leg, there was a MAJOR mapping error. The straight option looked OK - you would simply run down to an open, flat field, straight across, and then up the hill on the far side.
Unfortunately, there had been significant work on the land since the map was made, and apparently this was missed by the controller and course setter. A tall, uncrossable fence was extended blocking the way, and if this wasn't enough, excavations had created a large area of broken ground as well as a pond that effectively cut off access to the nice flat field, at least from where I approached it. And on the map, it should have been totally unobstructed, white forest transitioning to open field. Instead, I was forced to sidehill run along the leg, which was decidedly NOT faster.
Anyway, if it was my championships I guess it should have been voided as it was clearly an unfair race, particularly in a sprint situation. But as it was not my own championships, I didn't think it worthwhile to lodge any kind of protest. Considering even with that loss of time I'd have still be well back out of the medals.
Legs VERY tired. Ouch.