Orienteering race 48:51 [4]
Middle Distance at West Point Round Pond. Terrible race. Screwed up #1, #5. Did not have my head on straight. Was looking for first control in the boulder cluster along the line about 200 m before the control. Thought those were the boulders on the map, but somehow, thought the control flag would be there. Too stressed to think properly? Likely. Sloppy on #2 and #3. Stupid on #6 where I realized I needed to contour to the control, but headed downhill anyway--that's where the cliffs are! Wished I do have a "do over".
Good weather though.
Orienteering race (Sprint) 23:58 [5]
Screwed up #1 again, miscounted driveways and overshot it, relocated on bare rock. Ran pretty well after that until #7 where I lost track of my location on the trail and corrected with the help of Stephan Bergstrom who also overshot it and cut through the woods ahead of me. That stopped me, I cut in and could see the spur. Was too low on the next one, but relocated on boulder near the flat then headed up hill and to the right where I ran past it, looked over a cliff and saw Peter G, Bob Lux climbing up the cliff--with no marker there--so I turned around and could almost touch it! Next 2 were gimmies as I had already seen #9 on the way to #8 and could see #10 from #9. At #10, I thought too much and while PG and BL climbed up the hill to the road, I realized that #10 was lower in elevation, so I backtracked toward 9 then climbed losing lots of time in the forest rather than on the road. Discombobulated, I was in a frenzy after that. Found #12 just fine, but was iffy on #13 and then didn't check compass for last one---when will I ever get over rushing blindly to the last control--and hit the building to the north before having to relocate. Stupid mistakes.