O Cup # 3 Toronto Orienteering Club
Claireville Conservation Area
Beautiful, sunny day with temperature around -12C. We've had so little real winter this year that I totally overdressed my upper body! There was virtually no snow but every once in awhile, we would cross a section of glare ice on a trail or in the middle of a field where puddles had frozen. I was waking up all the SI controls until #5 when I boldly left the trail to cross a field of hummocks, tangled weeds and Christmas trees. I didn't bother checking my compass because that's for wimps. When I'd travelled the correct distance, I saw a building to my right and realized how badly I'd aimed. I dashed away from the building on a trail and found the flag in a re-entrant but that's when I saw Pekka Toivanen and Christian Michelsen. I think Pekka was the overall winner. I took home a $20 gift card from Sportchek as the top woman though. :)