Orienteering race (local meet) 1:06:54*** 6.3 km (10:37 / km) +623ft9:14 / km ahr:131 max:167 spiked:8/12c shoes: VJ Falcon studs #1
WCOC Ansonia red course. My mantra in this forest is mostly to stick to the bearing as precisely as I can and to notice the features that come up along the way, especially in the vicinity of the control. I followed this mantra with varying degrees of success on this day. I didn't read the terrain carefully enough in the vicinity of 3 and 5 and over-shot the controls. I also didn't take a precise enough bearing from 8 to 9, where I deviated significantly to the left of the straight line and looked for the control on the other side of the wrong marsh. That was a 10-minute mistake. I did OK otherwise. I wouldn't have been able to catch up with Sergiy G even if I hadn't made the ~14 minutes of mistakes that I made.