Orienteering race 1:08:57 [5] *** 6.0 km (11:30 / km) +330m 9:01 / km
spiked:16/18c shoes: IceBug Olx 4
Flying Pig Classic Day 2 Green. I did what I needed to do for the two-day combined. A little more conservative today, trying to avoid a disaster. My biggest blunder was on #2, when I saw the flag from the top of the ridge but was sure it wasn't my control because it was in a reentrant, not on a hill. So I spent a couple of minutes checking out the hills before deciding it had to be the one. It was.
5-6 was a nice leg, hard route choice and I changed my mind in the middle. I thought I would go all the way around on the road, but instead ran back down the road to the bottom of the hill, then along the little trail to the base of the spur and up. Wasted a couple minutes of climb.
Another mistake on the short leg 7-8, when I managed to get down to the stream between 8 and 12 (there was a control there) before recognizing my error.
Sixth on Green, second in M60 a minute behind Soupbone, who had a really good run today. First M60 in the combined.