orienteering 1:11:24 [4] *** 5.0 km (14:17 / km) +175m 12:09 / km
17c shoes: Inov8 O-roc 280 Red
DVOA Tyler - Green
The majority of this was very much a runner's course - but in some places it was not easy to run because there was a lot of mud. Plenty of rain, although once on course I didn't really notice that part. A bit of error on 8, when I lost contact in the scrubby field and popped out on a trail but then went the wrong way while figuring out which trail it was (the one I wanted - but the control was to the left, not the right!). And some bumbling around 10 and 12 where I first got caught up in a bit of deadfall, then chose a bad place to try to walk along the stream and ended up Spidermanning it across a dirt bank where I would have landed in the stream if my spikes didn't hold (they did).
I pushed it as much as possible in the easy parts of the terrain, narrowly squeaking out TGL over Kathy and Lena (they were both within 5 minutes of me).