Orienteering race 53:51 [4] *** 5.8 km (9:17 / km)
spiked:11/15c
ROC Meet at Rotary Sunshine Camp - Red course
Not a good start - went to the wrong spot for C1 and had some trouble figuring out what had gone wrong, even though I was probably less than 50m away. Kept getting pushed farther left on the way to C2 and actually went left as far as C4. C5 was fine, but then I had my big error. It was very hard to run toward the gun shots, so I kept drifting farther left from my compass bearing. I went by a control that turned out to be on the other side of the map, but by the time I realized it, I was far enough past that I was able to miss the woods section leading to C6 and wound up on the other side of the field to the south, thinking it was the smaller wedge north of C6. By the time I recovered, Stina, who started after me, was already at C6.
I realized it was time to focus and I went much better for the next stretch. Only problem was going to C14 - first I tried to cut off too much and ended up dealing with some medium green, then I got a bit confused by the trails as I got past the lowland area. Almost 3 minutes behind Mitch, in addition to being behind Rob S and Steve.
Running warm up/down 13:00 [2] 1.53 mi (8:30 / mi)
Decent 10 min w/up; abbreviated w/dn as I hustled off for Zach's opening hockey game. They ended up playing shorthanded for most of the 3rd, with several bad penalties that allowed Perinton to score a couple and tie it up, 3-3.
Orienteering race 36:08 [4] 4.2 km (8:36 / km)
Went back out on Orange, since I had some spare time. Lost focus going to C7 and missed the proper reentrant. Got into the "just a little farther" mode and wound up at C8. The finish stretch started out like the Red finish, so I left C13 just like for Red and skipped C14. Oops.