Orienteering race 1:00:27 [5] **** 4.17 km (14:30 / km) +210m 11:35 / km
shoes: adidas triple star
Relay champs at Osborndale. Perfect setting for O'ing--runnable woods, interesting topography.
Ran well on 12 of 16 controls--within seconds of best split on each. On the other hand...
- bad map read caused brain-dead route choice leaving control (did I think a stone wall was a cliff??): lost 5 min
- bad route choice on next leg got too close to dark green and had to backtrack out: 5 min
- sloppy bearing on next leg caused parallel error to wrong knoll: 2 min
- which led to hurried reading of map on next leg, mistaking a ridge for a valley: 5min
So, in 4 consecutive controls, I lost over 15 min (which only should have taken about 12 minutes). The problem is clearly mental: don't rush route choice (or work on it more beforehand), and don't let one bad leg ruin the next 4!