Orienteering race 28:56 [4] *** 3.7 km (7:49 / km) +100m 6:53 / km
spiked:10/13c
Red Middle at 3-day Sierra.
A decent run and nice area and map. Had difficulties with getting into mapping style on the way to #1. Way to the left on bearing but nice recovery on a bolder cluster. BAOC is notorious on putting controls very low and right behind features so hitting features without seeing any flags is key. Big mistake on #5 - bad compass work. Made a loop and recovered on a bend of trail NE of control. There were more stony grounds and stone features there than mapped. Overall lost about 2 minutes on these 2 mistakes plus small hesitations on finding bags but that is unavoidable. Otherwise, good effort and gasping for air on all uphills :) James won red with 1 minute margin.