Orienteering race 1:51:14 [4] *** 7.0 km (15:53 / km) +275m 13:17 / km
This was a LONG course. Luckily, it was a nice, dry, warm weekend. Thought the trails had their share of muddiness, it wasn't nearly as bad as it might have been if it were a wet weekend. That was especially important today as there was a lot of trail running. The meet information had discouraged use of the trails, but after going through the woods from 2 to 3, I decided it was better to stay on the trails. The course did a pretty good job of offering route choice problems. Even staying on trails had some serious technicality involved - with multiple routes to choose from and really having to stay in contact to avoid taking a wrong turn.
I didn't notice any obvious mistakes during my run. The attackpoint splits show lost time of 2:35 over controls 1, 4, and 5. At #1 I think I was just overly cautious running through the flat area. I also ended up starting with someone else on my same course (he had changed courses but not start times) and that sort of freaked me out and may have slowed me down.
at #4 I just aimed a bit wrong and hit the hillside too far to the right and had to turn over to the proper reentrant. At #5, it may just be that my going around on trails was slower than people who took a more direct route?
I asked Mike later what winning time he was going for - he said about 70 minutes - they were using IOF long - is that defined for Green?