orienteering race 33:23 [5] **** 3.8 km (8:47 / km)
spiked:6/8c shoes: Ice Bug Blue
25-manna! One of the 4 on the third leg. Good to the first control but then had a brain fart on the way to the second. On my compass line, stream of people heading in the same general direction, but then there emerged a large, unmapped trail. This threw me. I started second-guessing, stopped dead in my tracks, trying to re-fit to things, guessing that there were maybe two main streams in order to facilitate forking. Fuffing around like this stupidly for far too long before I could not make heads or tails. Started back in the same direction, hit a very clear feature that made sense and went on to spike my control. UGH! Stupid trail. Need to trust myself much more! Ran the rest of the course MAD. One or two small bobbles - nothing more than 20 seconds. Oh, and a little incident with a swamp...humpf...thank goodness for that tree.
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