orienteering race (middle) 53:20 [4] *** 3.85 km (13:51 / km)
spiked:8/11c
had bobbles on 3 controls, nothing huge but enough to cost about 5 minutes. #6 I took a route choice that went through about 75 meters of green...it didn't start out too bad but about half way it became more like dark green so that caused a little confusion since I was just trying to get through at that point, not a disaster, just slow. on the next control I left the trail too soon and came to a control in what I thought was a narrow reentrant so I turned W to locate my control...after not finding it I realized that the control I had found was in a pit and I needed to go E to my control. Once I figured that out I found the control without any trouble. The route to #9 was grueling, 20 contours (5m), when I got to the top I managed to turn E instead of W which cost me a minute. Overall a rather difficult run but I ended up only 6 seconds behind Beatrice so I felt pretty good about that.