Orienteering race 1:46:32 [3] ***** 7.05 km (15:07 / km) +32m 14:47 / km
spiked:7/17c shoes: X-Talon 212
NAOC Middle 3.9/65m (course 7a)
Wow, I learned that I would need to be careful from the model map and I am certainly prone to periodic whoppers and but today was an unmitigated disaster. There were some controls that went well during the first third, but I completely torched #7. This was followed by messing up 8, 9, and 11. The leg to C11 had a second set of beaver dams that confused me (and did again on the long!!). My navigating got better again at the end but the subtlety of the terrain was mostly beyond me today. Differentiating the more intermittent marshes and streams I was not getting even after reflection. On the model map, there were dry stream channels that were solid blue lines and completely drenched dashed blue intermittent streams. During my relocation near 7, my inability to get into the mapper's system played as a big negative. A second relocation issue was the mapping of bare rock as open ground. Apparently this is standard in Sweden but was foreign to me. I found the forest to be slow and the footing to be uneven enough that real speed was not happening.
Compass-wise, 7 legs drifted left?
On the positive side, as lame as this was, it was not to long ago that my skills would have me still roaming the forest.