orienteering 51:20 [5] 6.3 km (8:09 / km)
NEOC meet at Nobscot. Boris had suggested that I draw my own map for the first 30 minutes of orienteering and then do the last part of the course without a compass. The map drawing part was fun, and I think I did a pretty good job actually. My map was not sufficient on the first control only, where I got very lost ( had to look at the real map twice). I hadn't bothered to draw in some of the trails because I was planning on using the shape of the reentrant to navigate up the slope. Well seeing the trails on the ground really threw me for a loop, and the reentrant was rather a bit more vague than I expected.... which meant that I lost confidence and checked further down the trail than I should have. 6 minutes lost to that, before things settled in.
After I got back to the real map on the way to 10, I forgot to take off my compass and so it was only 12- the finish where I was working on that skill. It really messed me up going to 15, as I expected to come out on a different trail and had no good way of checking the direction.
A good set of exercises though. Very pleased.