orienteering race 1:14:03 [4] *** 8.16 km (9:04 / km)
30c shoes: Asics Gel-Excite 3
QOC College Park Score-O - on foot
Distance from Garmin
131-132-133-122-134-115-119-118-121-120-113-112-111-110-126-127-125-109-108-107-104-105-106-103-102-117-101-116-123-124
First mistake almost right off the bat, after 131 I headed for 133 but was looking around the wrong building (looking now, also think the area across from the plaza no longer matches the map, which contributed.) Ended up finding 132 first and then realizing what I had done and getting 133, although the circle here also doesn't well represent where the flag was actually located. (Ran into that a few times today.) Felt like I lost a lot of time but apparently it was only a minute or less.
When I got to 119, I did not see it (also the clue is a manmade object but the circle is most definitely centered on a tree) so I was looking at all things in the area when Jan, coming back from 118, told me he had heard that 119, 120, and 121 were all missing. So I continued to 118, then headed to 121, which was being replaced just as I was arriving. 120 had also been replaced. Pin punched the map on both of those.
112 was another that didn't quite match up, but it was on the SE pond corner instead and I saw it when approaching. 111 was cool, a helicopter. I then proceeded to fold my map such that I reached the first bridge and thought the control should be here despite it being way too soon and the bridge angle being wrong. Unfolded and looked again - oops - lost a little time here.
126 was cool, garden under a building with a neat red and white glass opening above it. 127 was another phantom feature, with nothing there on the map but in reality a small square fenced area. Between 109 and 108 down a lottttt of steps. 105 and 106 were cool little garden areas within alcoves on a building, though 106 was up some stairs not represented by the map and it took a second to figure out, but I saw people coming down.
Not much to say on the rest. I didn't have a good plan for how to work in 124 so that one was last.