Orienteering 1:20:31 [4] 10.0 km (8:03 / km) +350m 6:51 / km
WP A-meet (Long). My sole goal for this race was to beat Ali. After getting scalped at Billygoat, I did not care if I was first or 10th, as long as I finished ahead of her. And I think this helped for when I was crawling uphill to #5 thinking that I couldn't do this any more, I immediately thought that Ali probably just ran this thing up and I had to do better than my slow crawl. I had a quick chat with PG at the start but my focus didn't wader. I started well, always looking for things ahead of me and moving ok. Then really messed up #4, I had a decent route, simplifying it to just four pivot points. And as I got into the circle, I got confused by extra few boulders and a weird angle of things and then spotted a bag under a boulder just a bit higher of where I expected mine to be. Ran up checked it out, not mine. Went down again and raked the hill a bit further to find "my" rock with a bag on it. Not happy, I started to pick up the pace and made a mental note to be extra careful in a circle on the following legs. Caught up to Jeff Teutsch at #10 and got away on a long leg to #11. Then caught up to Wyatt on #16 and again dialed up the pace as we moved to a flatter terrain. Finished strong feeling happy about my race after all. Later learned that I did manage to beat Ali. So happy about that. As a bonus, managed to collect Eric and Will's scalps in the process, so feel happy about that too. Revenge is sweet :)
