Orienteering race 1:08:28 [3] **** 7.06 km (9:42 / km) +166m 8:41 / km
spiked:12/19c shoes: Inov 340 Pair #2
Green course, 5.65km
Technically, a more challenging course than I have run recently, due to good setting, rather intricate terrain in places, controls being set to be out of view until you were there, and the omnipresent push of honeysuckle. My legs could have used a bit of freshness (too much weekend warrioring and not enough paying during the week) but most of my loss was in errors. Some were sleepy; I lost 20 s on #12 going down from the knoll with a stand for another course rather than the obvious up. Others I couldn't quite figure out until I looked at my garmin track. On C7, I had intended to go close to C1 and swing across. When I cut in at the slight indentation in the lawn next to the road, I knew I was early but thought knowing would allow me to continue on. The honeysuckle punted me slightly left that had me biting into the small reentrants on the east end of the ridge and it took forever to move far enough west (at least 4 min error). The ruined fence, as Mike aptly pointed out, would have been a simple attackpoint. So, now I am tasked with writing "Choose APs better" a thousand times! Overall, most of the legs were ok and I was definitely happy to have given it a go.