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Saturday Oct 23, 2010 #
Orienteering 27:56 [3] *** 2.9 km (9:38 / km)
8c shoes: Cascadia Orienteering
Red Y Quali at the Fall Foliage Festival. Wow! It sure is nice to get out on a map and actually feel like I am orienteering :-). After last weekend I wasn't sure... Anyway, apparently my brain was able to switch back from ARDF mode to orienteering mode, and things sort of clicked. It wasn't a perfect race by any means. I did have some bobbles in the the circle and also lost some time on a pair of controls that were placed too close together, but all in all, I really felt like I was out there running and navigating *at the same time*. Wee! :-)
Orienteering 53:11 [3] 3.6 km (14:46 / km)
shoes: Cascadia Orienteering
Red Y Final at the Fall Foliage Festival. Ok, so apparently standing at the start for an entire day shouting at people is not the best preparation for an orienteering course. I had some trouble kicking my brain back into gear. I did a 180 at number 2, which lost me several minutes as I tried to fit the map to the forest for a while before realizing what happened. This was by far the worst mistake I had, but I never really felt like I was into it, and there was quite a bit of getting to the circle and then expecting the control to appear in front of me. I still had fun out there, but it would have been nice to be cleaner.