Orienteering race 1:00:00 [4]
shoes: inov-8 Oroc 280
So I thought to myself, "okay, this is a sprint, and you're a 'sprinter'" (which, I might add, I hate being). Surely this was going to go way better. And, yeah, it was going fairly well, started out controlled, and was cruising for the first bit, even though I didn't go up the hill when approaching the start road and watch other racers go to the first control like some fellow competitors did *cough*. By the 6th control I was even in the lead. Then, on 12, which was actually 11, but control number 112, having just punched 111, I started trying to go to 113 (12) when I should have been going to 112 (11). Thus, none of my bearings or features made any sense, since going from 10 (111) to 113 (12) as if you're actually at 112 (11), doesn't make any sense.
Apparently I skipped over the lesson of counting from 10 to 20, though I would also argue that arranging control numbers is just asking for confusion. Oddly enough, after my 2 minute error, I still finished fourth. *facepalm*