Orienteering race 1:34:42 [3] *** 6.6 km (14:21 / km) +230m 12:13 / km
19c shoes: Icebug olx 2nd
QOC Prince William Red. I figured I'd try for a comfortable pace and keep it up for the distance. I got that part of it o.k., but the actual orienteering was another story. I had an inordinate amount of trouble with all of the pit controls. Good attacks, reasonable position knowledge, but all of that wasn't good enough to spot the feature or the control. Except #12, in the clearing on the ridge, which I powered straight into, reading the reentrants above the river. #13 being especially frustrating, with such a short attack from the road where the linear ditch comes down, and inspecting so many pits before seeing the right one.
And, yeah, I completely blew #3, getting sucked into the wrong reentrant far, far to the north. What was I thinking? I did check the control code, and knew I had gone too far (duh!) so when I backtracked and found another ditch control I didn't think too hard about the code on that one. Two extra punches, neither one the right one. Wasn't going to be a stellar run anyway.
