Orienteering race (WA LDC) 2:25:45 [3] 6.68 km (21:48 / km) +121m 20:00 / km
shoes: Merrell Continuum
Another ignominious first - this time having to ask another runner for help with location :-( . Made hash of the first control (found 2 first and had to back track) and then was going OK through 6. The strategy to 7 was to get to the spur, rogaine up to a small knoll and attack from there. Went up too early and got completely bushwacked - could not make any sense of where I was on the map and kept blundering on in hope. Finally had to ask a nice young man coming into a control where I was and he obliged - I was half a K away from mine! He ended up with a third place, four minutes back from second - I don't think I chewed up that much of his time but I'm glad it wasn't any closer, or I'd had been even more embarrassed. Stumbled through the rest of the course in a fog, making another meal of 9 but otherwise OK. Somewhat less than glorious weekend even by my low standards.
