Run warm up/down (grass) 2:01 [3] 0.23 mi (8:46 / mi)
shoes: Falcons 2018
Decided to go orienteering today. Since email just came out about Marlboro course I decided to go there. This was the run from the parking area to the start. I was anticipating a quick run through the course.
Orienteering (swanson road long) 1:33:56 [3] 5.56 mi (16:54 / mi)
shoes: Falcons 2018
I was expecting a quick course but apparently that wasn't to be the case. It didn't help that I ran off the map on the way to #1. Needless to say it took me a long time to find the streamers. I did find the fence end but not the streamer. Finally I realized the field I was looking at didn't match the map so figured out what must have happened.
Overall the orienteering was just like a summer series. I spent as much time looking for streamers as I did running. I made mistakes. Contour interval seemed to be much larger than 5 meters but that could be because I have spent the last few weeks mapping a 2m contour map. Several of the small contour details seemed to be missing. At least one control was hung too low.
At one point I intentionally took a long route to avoid climb which turned out to be a disaster. The low areas were very wet, the marsh areas were ponds. The area between the marsh and hill was suppose to be dry but didn't exist.
Course was listed as 6.2K but I traveled quite a bit longer.