Orienteering race 1:23:37 [4] 12.0 km (6:58 / km)
Borrego - i.e. Goat event, almost entirely in the gentler though occasionally quite complex desert rather than the canyons. In the to me unexpected absence of the weekend's Europeans and even of US elites other than Eric, who was taking it relatively easy, victory was theoretically and actually fairly easily mine but I didn't know that at the time since I wasn't aware that the Alex (last name?) following close behind me for most of the course had skipped a control fairly early in order to avoid losing contact with me. The sprint finish and/or deceptive tactics I might have tried in the box before the last two controls since attempts to simply outrun him weren't working therefore weren't necessary since he had to go get the control before the box that I skipped.