Orienteering race (Long) 1:18:08 [5] 10.4 km (7:31 / km)
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon 212 2013
8.6k course. 9'05/km orienteering speed.
Messed up the first three controls, but other than that I had a phenomenal race. #1 I started together with Boris, and foolishly assumed we had the same control. I exited the trail too early and ran down a reentrant parallel with mine. #2 I'm not sure exactly what I was doing, but I definitely didn't think that route through. I tried to contour my way around the hill past 8. I didn't really read my map, and so didn't realize that when I hit the trail there was no way I could have been near 2 seeing that I hadn't crossed the river. Nonetheless I still tried to attack the control from there. Realized my mistake from the patch of yellow around the trail and booked it towards the real #2. 3 minute mistake right there.
#3 I wasn't very confidant about hitting the ditch junction, and was unsure and therefore slow running up the hill towards 3. I hit it almost dead on, but was very hesitant on my way there. Rougly 20 seconds lost there.
Fastest split to #4, huzzah. The green under the line towards 4 wasn't as bad as it looked on the map. Relatively easy to run through there.
On the way to 7 I tried to cut of the trail when it does its little hairpin, but the runability in the reentrant was terrible. Sticking to the trail the whole way would have been only slightly longer but significantly faster.
Fastest split to 9. Took the road towards the finish and passed by 14. Headed up the ditch and compassed it from there.
Fastest split to 10 too, jeez I'm on a roll. Crossed the reentrant right where the cliffs stop and then followed the edge of the green towards the end of the spur. Hit the cliff dead on but descended on the wrong side.
Messed up 11 a little bit. I followed the edge of the cliffs all the way around and overran it a little. Relocated off the rock just past the control.
12 wasn't mapped right. There was an entire river and multiple cliffs simply omitted from the map. I was very confused when I was running through ankle deep water with cliffs on either side that weren't reflected on my map. I found the control from the vegetation and ditch nearby, but lost some time.