Orienteer 1:13:32 [5] *** 7.9 km (9:18 / km) +640ft 8:17 / km
ahr:182 17c shoes: Salomon Speedcross 3 W9
my first A-meet! had a great mentor/travel buddy in David and lots of support from SLOC and MNOC people. a great experience also helped by super organization from OK/PTOC. yayyyyy midwest!
a little shaky run to CP1, just nerves i guess, then got comfortable and ran well all the way to CP8 - got distracted w multiple people running everywhere. then good to CP13. got over-confident to CP14 and blew it trying to contour around the hilltop instead of being safe straight over the top, got sucked into a 90-degree reentrant too soon. figured it out and corrected with a splashy trail run. then pretty good all the way in, beat David on the go control by 5 seconds.
1st place F21+ is way out of reach but 2nd-4th are all within a few minutes so should be fun tomorrow.
later in the afternoon David and I went through the map (he ran 53:XX on Red, 20 minutes faster than me) and talked through each route choice. SO HELPFUL.