Orienteering race 2:02:56 [3] *** 8.0 mi (15:22 / mi) +461m 13:02 / mi
26c shoes: Salomon Speedcross 4 - GRAY
Letchworth NRE
Blue - 10.4 km, 330 m
What a beautiful day and fun course! Seriously one my favorite course designs to date due to the variety in terrain, locations, little fight, leg length, etc. I was having a blast, but for some reason couldn't motivate myself to really push it, so I just kept a steady pace that I felt good about. I think i was going slow enough that I should have avoided all the errors, but oh well. Really like the NRE format, and it looked like they got pretty good attendance, I hope the more local clubs take advantage of it.
Note: tracks start at control 2
3 - overshot when I saw a flag in similar feature that turned out to be on the red course
5 - mostly inefficient route, but also i was staring at my map saying the control should be here, instead of looking up and spotting it.
7 - biggest error. Went up the wrong spur and got all the way to the top, and then had to come back down to punch. a little demoralizing.
8 - stopped for water
11 - took it slow through the intricate terraine
14 - this leg was a road crossing you got up to a minute to do and is subtracted out of the real results. I stopped for a drink and to analyze the map flip to take advantage.
18 - overshot too far north, easy to correct off of a bigger swamp
23 - overshot too far north, corrected off the field below the nearby cabin.