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Sunday May 12, 2013 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:34:40 [4] **** 5.9 km (16:03 / km) +215m 13:34 / km
14c shoes: Icebug olx
I had a pretty good run except for one control, #2, which should have been easy. I have no idea what I was thinking, but I must have passed just downhill of the control and kept on going up and up and up. When I finally did start thinking, I knew I was way too high, and in fact, I knew right where I was. So I made it back down to the control just fine, but I lost 10 minutes in the process. That would have more than made up the difference to the winning time in M60.
The rest of the run was uneventful. I was very slow on the long leg to #5. Chose to go south down the long ridge and join the road near the lake, but it seemed to take forever. I was slowed down some by recent logging activity. I know it was mentioned in the meet notes, but I think they understated the problem. This really should have been marked with green slash. And the unmapped skidder roads added to the confusion. I tried once to diagonal in towards #5 from the road, but backed out and went further down the road to a better approach. I think I could have been 5 minutes faster if I had just gone to the trail at the closest approach from #4 and run it all the way around.
The rest of the run was uneventful. I was very slow on the long leg to #5. Chose to go south down the long ridge and join the road near the lake, but it seemed to take forever. I was slowed down some by recent logging activity. I know it was mentioned in the meet notes, but I think they understated the problem. This really should have been marked with green slash. And the unmapped skidder roads added to the confusion. I tried once to diagonal in towards #5 from the road, but backed out and went further down the road to a better approach. I think I could have been 5 minutes faster if I had just gone to the trail at the closest approach from #4 and run it all the way around.