Orienteering race 2:22:21*** 18.48 km (7:42 / km) +669m6:31 / km ahr:157 max:177 18c
TT long. Tough race. Tough terrain, tough nav, tough course - but fun. Ran okay, just don't have the fitness to do really well on a course like this compared to the other guys. Started out probably too cautiously, because the first couple legs seemed scary and I didn't want to blow it early on. Had one major mistake, 5min on 7, when I went through the wrong saddle and down a completely wrong spur, not even close to the right one. Very unhappy with myself at that point. Also took bad routes to 8 and 9.
Like at the Junior Nationals long a couple weeks ago, started tiring about an hour in but then recovered some toward the end - I think I need to eat GUs earlier. Side note - I borrowed and consumed a couple of Eric's 10-year-old pineapple-flavored GUs; they were a weird rusty color, probably not the one they started out as, but they didn't make me sick.