BC Champs, Day 2. In the immortal words of Troy Aikman, "as good as they were in the first quarter, that's how as bad as it is now." Lost several minutes @ 2; only found it after running into a control from Saturday and remembering where it was on the map. Then much more time lost on 3-4-5 through the open meadow area. For some reason I couldn't figure out that damn meadow to save my life. Got better after than until a parallel error on the penultimate control cost me another couple minutes. I ended up fourth on the day after Adam, Graeme, and a Danish guy; Adam in particular had a great run and came within 2:00 of making up the entire deficit.
ResultsSo I get to add BC champ to Western States champ on my list of obscure, esoteric orienteering accomplishments, yet having a bad run on Sunday cancelled out most and/or all of the confidence-building of Saturday.
9/18 September races done:
4 above average
3 average
2 below