Orienteering race 1:26:06 [4] 9.5 km (9:04 / km) +295m 7:51 / km
QOC Patuxent Blue - a slog in considerable heat and extreme humidity. Muffed first control pretty badly, then stopped for 30 seconds or so on the way to 6 because I'd done a cursory job of tying my shoelaces, thinking I'd do it right before starting, then forgot to do it right - bad habit. Also lost maybe a minutish on a later control on a stream bend right next to a stream junction. Except it was actually hung on the edge of the circle, one stream bend further west. Rather than first look where it was I jumped straight to evaluating whether I might have made a parallel error amd was actually looking at a completely different nearby stream junction and bend. Boris and Ken both did shorter courses with, IIRC, comparable TPKs.
Is it just me or is Patuxent slowly trending to thicker/slower woods? Still mostly quite runnable when not surrounded by mountain laurel. Rose-tinted memory may be most or all of the problem.
Also did a chunk of control pickup but almost entirely at walking speed and not for purposes of exercise so it will go unlogged.