Orienteering race 2:10:38 [3] **** 8.09 mi (16:09 / mi) +1100ft 14:18 / mi
ahr:129 max:177 spiked:16/24c shoes: Merrill Moab
Horrible. Horrible. Course was on track to be OK until I got slapped in the eye with a tree twig around point 7. Vision mostly recovered but itchiness made it hard to concentrate and I then found it very hard to maintain contact with the map. Recovered mostly towards the end but lost about half an hour (!) on point 9 (wandered along ridgeline and was late to bail) and about 10 minutes on point 12 having mistaken an adjacent clearing for the one I needed. Not a great day. Going to have to make a mental adjustment and determine what a successful Sunday looks like.