Orienteering race 1:47:00 [5] 5.0 mi (21:24 / mi) +225m 18:46 / mi
shoes: Icebug Pytho2 BUGrip
West Point A Meet Green-X Long. Worst orienteering ever for me. Big problems finding control 1 which should have been a gimme. I actually had run up to the right control in good time but then I must of read the number wrong and spent 20 minutes looking around the area on wrong level of cliffs. Finally I said "that must be it after all" and checked again. Not sure how I read it wrong. It was control 52 and it was upside down. Then I thought control 2 would be easy but it wasn't. It was near a control for another course but with the same feature (other side of a boulder, of course). Went back to a stone wall and navigated to 2. By this time I'm already at least 30 minutes in and 0 for 2 on finding controls, very tired and frustrated. The next control looked like it was not near any feature so decided to walk out of the woods. I went around Rattlesnake Bog and followed trails back. I saw lots of MP and DNF in the results so I was not the only person who had trouble.
Basically I just did everything wrong that I could do wrong. If I would have read the first control number correctly I would have probably been OK for the rest of the course. Also got frustrated when control 2, which looked easy, was hard to find. What is really bums me out is that after 5 years of orienteering I still have problems like this. Not sure I'll ever go back to West Point now.