orienteering race 59:19 [4] 3.9 km (15:13 / km)
Embarrassed to say I made a really stupid error early on in the course near places where I had set controls in the spring. I kept drifting left, and I kept correcting, but then I drifted way left and didn't correct and ended up at the wrong swampy area. Knew where I was and helped a kid who was lost and then went back to my control but things didn't look right and I second guessed myself and finally just went out to the power line to relocate. Really, really dumb. On the next control I drifted way left again but corrected when I recognized a control location from the spring - could not figure out how I had ended up way over there. Finally remembered that my old thumb compass that I was using since I lost my new one has about a 30 degree difference in how you have to hold your wrist from the one I've been using recently. And then I was fine on the rest of the course. I was thinking that I was really moving and feeling really speedy and then I realized the first half of the course was all downhill. I was walking a whole lot more on the second half back up the hill!!