Walking warm up/down 15:21 [1] 0.6 mi (25:34 / mi) +38m 21:20 / mi
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
To start. Warm enough by the time I got there to remove my long sleeve shirt and leave it with my sweatshirt. We had late starts, near the end of the start window.
Orienteering race 1:32:41 [3] **** 4.97 km (18:38 / km) +69m 17:25 / km
spiked:9/13c slept:7.0 (injured) shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
Brown Long on Turkey Mountain map. 3.3km, 135m climb
AP and I actually agree on where I made errors; the largest of those were 7 and 8. I went south around the mountain to 7 but confused the bare rock south 120m of the control for the small patch of bare rock within the circle, and I wandered to the east side of it (where I could see the large valley between 8 and 9) before correcting. Ugh. Then to 8 I arrived at the correct reentrant but no flag, and I looked around some other reentrants nearby before circling back and spotting it buried in a tiny, thick, rocky reentrant at the edge of the circle (and thus invisible on my map). Others must have looked the correct way when approaching the flag to see it because some folks had no trouble with the control. 10-11 was a similar leg to the green Y course's 10-11 and I was not being careful after crossing the road so got drawn off towards their control and took more time than I should have to relocate and find the boulder and flag. Okay from there except I hesitated at the small building along the road to finish (if you swung wide rather than climb the spur) covered up by the digit "1" of control 13 number, but the building wasn't the right shape.
Ah well. I took trails to get close to both 1 and 2 and had no trouble to 3. The hill before 4 didn't match the picture I had in my head from the map so I was hesitant there and Nadia (who started two minutes ahead after some rearrangement of starters, but who lost time at 2) caught back up to me and led the way in. Very tiring day. Ribs sore but holding my left arm against my side helps some while I try to jog.
Finished 5th again today (as at the sprint) but 4th for the weekend (combined times). First place in the class received a souvenir West Point/Army plastic canteen, with 2nd and 3rd getting rosette ribbons.
We had a wonderful visit and dinner afterwards with G, S, and grandson O, who's very much into trains, and let me read the entire The Little Engine That Could to him.