orienteering1:06:46 3.21 mi (20:48 / mi) +46m19:55 / mi ahr:132 max:176
BrownX at GNC. Another fun outing but boy was I a space cadet today. It was really cold and I was fussing over which layers and extra stuff (hat? gloves? buff?) to wear and got to the start and realized I had forgotten my control description holder. Then I get to the actual start line and was confused when they didn't call my name at what I thought was my start time but while I had the hour right I had the minutes from Saturday's start stuck in my head and had shown up 25 minutes early. Luckily they let me start only about 5 minutes later. But then it took a couple controls for me to settle down. Little off to the right on #8 - I guess I wasn't following my compass well enough and the yellow area I thought would be obvious wasn't - but there were a couple of other people in the area which saved me. Did some more running and my knees are still holding up well. Life is good.
orienteering1:22:01 3.47 mi (23:38 / mi) +159m20:42 / mi ahr:135 max:188
BrownX at GNC. Was having a decent outing and then as I've done before at about an hour I lost focus. Lost about 4 or 5 minutes on a leg where I just could not make myself stick to a plan and just botched it up royally. Finally got my act together and then was fine. Again, I had a really fun time. I was jogging in places when the footing was good and pushing hard everywhere else. It was raining, pretty hard actually, when I started but it stopped after a while. My contacts worked well enough; although I had glasses with me I never used them. They were probably too fogged anyway. Time on the watch includes some extra at the beginning and then at the end until I remembered to turn it off.
I forgot to start my watch right away so this is the beginning couple of minutes to get to my official time.
2 PM
orienteering43:02 2.1 mi (20:29 / mi) +66m18:40 / mi ahr:152 max:202
Brown course. Fun. No errors although one big hesitation on #4 as the vegetation mapping didn't seem quite right; then I remembered to look for the feature and not the flag and it was 10 feet in front of me - a large knoll with the flag hidden on the far side. I was 2 seconds from bailing out so a useful hesitation. Got tangled up in some thorny vegetation at #10, tripped and stepped in a muddy gully bottom getting one of my feet soaking wet. Had kept them dry until then which surprised me given the amount of rain yesterday. Ran a bit - never for very long but in the woods and not only on trails so a big step forward from what I was doing last year.