orienteering race (cell-phone-O) 30:44 [3] ** 2.86 km (10:44 / km)
spiked:9/11c shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
Cell phone course A (with Charlie navigating) on the map behings the DeWitt's house (Bald Rock). No significant problems, just a smidgen of hesitation on #2 (some mismatch between what I was reporting seeing in the terrain versus what Charlie was seeing on the map), and a bobble at #6 where I first looked at the cliff on the southern edge of the circle. Temperature about 22F, and the same clothes as the day before, but with wool socks, and a hat (which was there mostly to keep my Bluetooth headset in place), and I was comfortable.
Of all of the epunch events that I've run, this one seems to have been the worst in terms of splits accuracy. The start and finish punches appear to have been pretty well synchronized, but the others were off by random amounts, maybe due to the cold temperatues, as compared to my watch, which I'm assuming is correct. The absolute value of the error in split time is about 21 seconds. Note that if half of the controls were off by 21 seconds, and the rest were spot-on, this is what you'd see, as each faulty control would affect the legs preceding and following. The biggest error was 38 seconds on leg 5 (2:03 on a leg that actually took 2:41), though percentagewise the finish chute was worse (0:48 on a leg that actually took only 0:18). There's also what appears to be a programming error: my times for legs 1 and 2 show on the split sheet as 0:50 and 2:59, but the elapsed time at #2 is 2:49. (All subsequent totals also appear to be off by a minute.) Seems peculiar, no? I think what's going on is that due to the clock on control 101 being off by about 30 seconds, my 0:20 split got 0:30 subtracted, and I appeared to have arrived 10 seconds before I started. So the split should have showed as (-01):50, but the software presumably considers negative minutes to be nonsense, and changes the (-01) to zero.
orienteering 29:12 [0] 0.0 km
This was followed by my navigating Charlie around course B, which was without hitches other than his missing a trail bend and going a few meters past a control -- fortunately, he reported crossing a ditch, which I was able to have him follow it directly to the control.
Note
Could have sworn that I had orienteered at the DeWitts' house a couple of times, but there was nothing in my spreadsheet of orienteering courses that I've done. Am I really losing it, a la Gagarin? A look through my folder of maps from Connecticut turned up one map from 2004 labeled "training run" that looked like a more or less normal course. I think maybe there was one other time when I went out for a map walk with Nancy.
My Connecticut map folder is getting fat enough that I need to subdivide it. I've already done this for New York (separate Harriman/West Point folder) and Colorado (separate 1000-Day folder), plus Massachusetts and New Hampshire are both divided by region (three regions for MA). In this case, Ratlum Mountain will be getting its own folder.