Orienteering (Bag Pickup) 50:00 [2] 2.3 km (21:44 / km) +90m 18:11 / km
A few hours after goat, while Poison oak still soaking into my skin... hopefully the Tecnu got most of it...
Orienteering (Race) 1:42:30 [4] 9.5 km (10:47 / km) +865m 7:25 / km
Golden Goat - 1st place!!! Beat Syd!!! (by 16 minutes!) Picked a better skip and he was 2.5 minute behind at course rejoin, but knowing that, apparenly he tried to pick up the pace and made lots of mistakes as a result.
I also had a "Stanford track star" (4:00 mile 5 years ago, and <<35:00 10km today) with me all the way from 4 to the finish, (he was with Syd to 4...) I tried to break away several times, e.g. on a steep rocky bushy downhill, and on a moderately forested downhill where I'd prememorized the whole route. No luck - he can run through terrain just fine!
I beat him at the end by my GO control strategy. Instead of running straight toward it, I made like I was running past it toward other location. Then, at the last minute, I leapt off a 10 m earthbank (not a cliff, just very steep dirt) beating him to the punch, and then the 3-4 second punching headstart was enough to beat him in the 80m chute!
I'm not sure he wanted to try to beat me in - I think he was happy for the following-ride, and to finish behind me, but I wanted to make sure :)