Orienteering 13:45 [5] 3.5 km (3:56 / km)
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon 190 no.3
World Cup
Qualifier
Men A Heat
Disqualified
Bad route for 2, no real plan for 3 and so made a mistake. Not straight enough on 5, missed shortest (+10s) route on 9.
Then so occupied thinking about whether I could cross marsh lost focus on what I should have been doing and missed short leg.
From memory I have never come across an uncrossable marsh in sprint racing. Really wasn't sure whether marsh was crossable but decided that the line round it wasn't thick enoguh. In hindsight I know if the marsh has a line then it is uncrossable but there seems to be some disagreement over whether it was thick enough on the map and even if they used the right marsh symbol... In fact it wasn't much quicker to go through the marsh. I got to the edge of it to find it more like a pond but just jumped in, sinking up to my waste.
So ultimately could have been dsq for 2 things in this race.