Orienteering race 1:02:28 [3] 7.4 km (8:26 / km) +180m 7:32 / km
Another bleh race... Was good to 1. Slow to 2. then 3 was terrible... at least 8 minutes. I still don't know what I did, but it definitely had something to do with me not looking at my compass. I think there was also a bit of where it would be easier to run, so I stayed high and went the wrong direction.... :S 4 was also bad... Just stupid really. ignored the obvious route choice and went straight over a hill (off by 30 degrees) and through some dark green, which i was fortunately able to move through. Once I finally figured out where I was, I ran up a reentrant which was also going in slightly the wrong direction. 5 was similar in that I decided to "swing" and went in an arc instead of the obvious route of straight... 6 was stupid as well. I was running down a spur and just decided to go to the right of a knoll... No idea why, just decided left. I ended up going quite a ways out of the way and it cost me atleast a minute, probably 2. the rest of 6 was good, though. 7 was good, but slow. 8 was goodish. 9 was dumb. got distracted by another runner and didn't pay attention and just ran. Stupid! It was a short control and I probably lost a whole minute. 10 was slow with an ok, but slower route choice. 11,12, and 13 were good. 14 was weird but ok, coulda saved 30 seconds maybe. 15 was good. 16 was dumb but it was the maps fault. A depression was mapped as a hill and so i thought the saddle I was in was somewhere else... 30 seconds.
In total, I lost atleast 8 minutes on 3. 2 min on 4. 1 min of 5. 1:30 on 7. 1 min on 9. 30 sec on 10. and 1 min with 14 and 16. Total: 14 minutes lost. Despicable!