Orienteering race 1:08:15*** 5.31 km (12:51 / km) +82m11:56 / km ahr:131 max:169 spiked:6/7c shoes: 2017 Inov8 ArcticClaw 300
Brown course at Fair Hill for mid-Atlantic championships meet between DVOA and QOC. Nominally 4.2 km, 75 m climb
Fair Hill is not my favorite venue because it's open fields for the most part with wedges and snippets of woods--where controls are usually placed--which can be scratchy in places. I'm not much of a runner so am at a disadvantage to those who *can* run. In some places in the fields, even the grass (although fallen over) was an impediment (except perhaps for those young high-stepping folks who probably had no trouble with it). But I navigated well ... except for number 3 where I didn't see the intended rootstocks/dirt balls/mapped knolls and checked many other unmapped ones before trying again from a stream junction. Probably lost 8-10 minutes there (I haven't analyzed the track).
My route from 5-6 was probably one of the slower ones; I thought I'd lose too much elevation dropping to the road but I suspect it was the best.
25th on Brown last time I checked.
Added Note: AJ Riley smoked the course in just under 27 minutes!
2 PM
Orienteering race 14:23** 1.43 km (10:03 / km) +34m8:59 / km ahr:153 max:168 spiked:6/6c shoes: 2017 Inov8 ArcticClaw 300
First leg (1.3 km 35m climb) of relay for an 8-pt DVOA team with Ron Bortz and Fred Reed.
I was probably last to finish on leg 1 (unless there were some walkers), but we finished 5/8 teams thanks to Ron and Fred.