Orienteering race 44:06 [3] *** 2.8 km (15:45 / km) +113m 13:06 / km
Middle distance at NAOC in Cranbrook, BC. W45A course. Forerunner = 4.2k
If this race was a Nancy Drew book, it would have been called, "Mystery at the 2nd Control." Mystery because it took me forever to find it! And from what I heard, others had trouble there, too, but maybe not as much as I did. I found #1 fine, but somehow I got off on the wrong line on the way to #2, and ended up on a parallel trail, and I was able to make everything match up, even to the point of seeing a control up ahead, on a rocky knoll. But, when I got there, it wasn't mine. Rats! Now where was I?? So, I headed back towards the last known place, came across the bigger path, saw that I had cut off at a hill that was fieldier than the one I wanted, so kept running on the path until I saw the correct hill...and the correct path!
After that, things went much better, but the damage was already done. I was happy that I willed myself to keep pushing, even though I was pretty down. Oh, well, tomorrow is another day.