Orienteering race 18:11 [5]
shoes: New Balance Vazee Summitt Trai
DVOA Summer Sprint Series - Hibernia
Rebekah and Noah joined me. The plan was for me to do the short course first, then do that same course with Noah, then do the long course. I goofed and did the longer first, but Noah was still enjoying the playground so I just did the other course before heading out with him.
Turns out that I won both of the sprints - by about a minute and a half each.
Sprint 2 went alright. I moved quickly but had an issue with 9, as I came out too far north and took the wrong trail only to backtrack, cut a corner, miss my cutoff, and have to backtrack to the CP again. Probably at least a minute lost in that nonsense. I had a small bobble on 17, where I followed a trodden path in that grass that seemed correct, only to realize that I was a little bit below the CP and had to backtrack. Outside of those two nitpicky errors, it was a good start.
Didn't start my watch right on time, but this was my best watch work of the day...
Orienteering race 12:46 [5] 2.0 mi (6:23 / mi)
shoes: New Balance Vazee Summitt Trai
Sprint 1 - forgot to start my watch at the beginning; really need to find an effective way to fix that problem.
This sprint was probably cleaner than the first. Had a little confusion after 2, but when I stopped to read the map I realized that I had already moved in the correct direction. I chose to bushwhack out from 4 towards 5, and I think I hit it perfectly; I moved quickly and came out right before the junction near the CP. I had some pretty good like left in my legs, so I was able to travel uphill from 10 to 11 well and finished quickly.