Orienteering race (Flying Pig @ Carter Caves) 1:28:48 [3] *** 3.9 km (22:46 / km) +190m 18:19 / km
18c shoes: X-Talon 212
Middle Green F course set by Stephanie Ross. By the third race of the weekend, I knew that I was tired on the way to the first control with heavy legs and feet that weren't happy with the frozen ground. I started out moving too far east from the start and needed to correct to C1. PeggyD passed me on the way to C2 and then took a higher route to C3 while I went down to the plateau and ran N to the reentrant with C3. Just before I reached the reentrant, PeggyD ran down it and, looking up the reentrant without looking at the map, I saw a control and ran up to it because PeggyD... The Green F control was actually in the lower part of the reentrant which I would have figured out if I had looked at my map. As I went across the ditch to C4, I heard a boy crying and, after a few seconds, decided I couldn't leave him there so spent a few minutes trying to figure out how he had gotten so far off his course and what the easiest way was for him to get back on it. After sending him up the hill to the trail with the start, I continued on my course. C9, in the cliff and boulder area, was cool as was the route to C10 which went over a natural bridge. I bobbled C10 and didn't take a direct route to C11 but the rest of the course was fine. Overall, a fun course that I should have been faster on.
walk 40:00 [2] ** 1.2 km (33:20 / km)
shoes: NB 860v4
Walk with Aragorn to see the natural bridges - much more impressive than those at home on the Bruce Peninsula.