1. When I looked at my map I only saw the trail going to 1 and I quickly accelerated and became over confident. To prevent this from happening again I need to stay focused and controlled at the beginning of a sprint and check off every feature I see until I am comfortably racing and can begin simplifying again
2. I ran around the green because I didn't want to miss the control, lacking confidence here
3. Tried to stay in open forest, I hadn't adjusted to the correct densities of the forest and what I could and couldn't run through quickly.
4. Should've run more directly to the control
5. Straight over
6. Straight again
7. I probably should've gone on the road, 0 planning ahead
8. Planned this well and took the road as long as I could
9. Fairly straight, checked off the two lines of hill thingies and their flat opening
10. Didn't have an exit route, had to correct
11. Kept a hard compass bearing
12. Noticed I was off shooting because of terrain and worked hard to cottect, didn't have my head up through and slightly missed the control
13. I didn't plan ahead much, I should've ran out to the trail which was 15m away, would've made me faster, once I got in the open my legs felt pretty tired
14. Didn;t plan it out well and almost went to a third, temporary puddle
15. Check off the building and run in, felt slow
16. Tried not to add extra distance, I think it was the right route, I wasn't sure it the terrain between the two buildings was olive green or not so I stayed on the trail and that added time
17. Around to the control
18. I ran too slowly because I hadn't planned it out well
19. Wasn't focused on the map and had to slow down to look at the last 2 controls
20. Double checked that it was my last control
Finish. Around the olive green
Overall:
-I went into this race way to overconfident and that made me skip my transition into the race which allows for me to start orienteering
-From not having a good start I was shook up and did a poor job trying to get into the right state of mind
-Next time I will force myself to take the first controls out not only at a controlled pace, but also with good orienteering form, checking off features, planing ahead, and checking controls. This will let it flow more smoothly as I naturally speed up as I get more confident throughout the race