Orienteering race (Orange Middle) 57:06 [5] *** 3.3 km (17:18 / km) +105m 14:56 / km
shoes: Adidas Supernova
Everything went pretty well! It was really cool to be at a bigger meet and also meet some of Holly's friends.
#1: Ran off in the wrong direction. Realized it quickly and was lucky to find the right stream (there were a lot of them) to take me to the control.
#2: Spike.
#3: Could have gone horribly awry but ended up spiking. I basically went staight there, through open woods, across a field, through more open woods, across a stream, more open woods, then to the far side of the next field. All the vegetation boundaries were really obvious though, and the fields had good visibility, so this actually wasn't bad at all.
#4: Good, except I had a little trouble actually finding it.
#5: Spike.
#6: Same as 4, I got there fine, but had to hunt around for a couple minutes.
#7: Spike. This one was very lucky, since I just took a bearing and headed straight there. There were some streams though I could've used to relocate if I'd been a little off.
#8: Spike. Straight up the hill.
#9: Spike.
#10: Spike.
Navigationally, it was no problem. The biggest issue is that for the past 8-9 months, I have not been running because of shin splints, so I could have gone faster if I'd been able to run a few days per week leading up to it.
Orienteering (Green Sprint Relay) 35:04 [4] *** 2.47 km (14:12 / km) +75m 12:20 / km
shoes: Adidas Supernova
Fun race, no problems finding the controls, I would just like to be faster next time.