Orienteering 55:00 [3] 3.0 km (18:20 / km)
WCOC Middle
The walk to the start made me think I wouldn't be doing much running today and turned out to be true.
It wasn't AS bad as it looked, but it was still rough and soft enough to keep me strolling for most of it.
A little error at #3 on a short, vague leg followed by a huge one at #5 doing a 90 out of #4 and ignoring my compass until I had no choice to admit I was not in the right place. Clean but slow through the complex depressiony area.
Thought I might pick up the pace towards the end, then instantly fell on a fallen pine tree (reminisient of the 2014, shin bone revealing injury) and had to give myself a talking to that I wasn't here to compete for any sort of glory.
Sweet tourist leg to CP12 had us cresting a ridge to a panorama view of the mountains, followed by the most challenging part of the course for me, the rough, steep descent to the final control.
Enjoyed it a lot, but also very happy that I was not going to be doing 9km on the Long in the same area the next day.