Orienteering race 1:44:00 [4] *** 6.8 km (15:18 / km) +210m 13:15 / km
spiked:8/9c shoes: Icebug Gryllo
QOC Combat Village Red. Snow on the ground and temperature probably in the high 20s. Only 9 controls in 6.8 km, so there were some long legs. A good course.
I made a huge parallel error on #3, and had a lot of trouble figuring it out, but I see what went wrong now. I thought I was heading up the stream west of the control, but I was actually on the stream to the SW. When it forked, I thought I had gone too far and was on the stream to the NW. That's a 300m difference, so when I got out to the road I guessed my location wrong and compounded the error by going the wrong way. Probably ran a little bit off the map before getting back on the course. About 15 minutes lost.
Everything else went well. It was interesting how I could go a long way through untracked snow, and then start seeing tracks coming in from all directions near the control. Maybe that says something about my route choices.
Speaking of which, I took one bad route, but I couldn't have told from the map. From the clearing SW of #7 (133) I went SW to the road, which looked like a reasonable alternative from the map, but it was a logged-out area with horrible undergrowth. I'm sure the trail to the SE was better.