Orienteering race (Brown day 2) 1:28:16 [3] *** 4.2 km (21:01 / km) +70m 19:24 / km
spiked:9/10c shoes: Jala Jukola Spider 6 #3
Slightly better day (at least OUR course wasn't thrown out; the Red was due to 2 missing controls), but still a big dumb error, on number 4.
1 -- Watched folks out of the start and headed down the SW trail before cutting off it near the bend. Saw the mapped trickle just before the rise of the spur.
2 -- Carefully compassed to 2, arriving at the "hill" when I expected to. Circled around it from below to find the flag.
3 -- Crossed stream at junction and headed for the stone wall segments to be sure I knew where I was on the hill, then bounced off the clearing to the knoll.
4 -- Tried to do this on compass, but should have taken the safe route out to the road (though longer). When I hit the first indistinct road I had a pretty good idea where I was, but I think I was drawn off by another green area and veered SE too far. Tried to relocate off a stonepile on the hill to the south, but couldn't definitely identify which one it was. Then headed back north before deciding to head to the road. Attacked off the spot where the broken-down stone wall symbol is adjacent to the road but still had to correct to the right. Lost 20-22 minutes!
5 -- Compass worked on this one; kept going right by another control in the wrong feature and not far enough along, although a fellow who'd punched at 4 just ahead of me and was headed the same way swung by to check the code.
6 -- Along the first index-contour hill and then up and over the next one, bypassing another control on the marsh between the bigger hills.
7 -- Didn't trust myself to just compass, so swung to the north/northeast to use the steeper hill as a handrail, though I didn't go all the way down to it. Hit stone wall segments before the control, including a junction and knew right where I was.
8 -- Down the hill to the road; left knee had some sharp pains in a new spot (upper inside), which took awhile to run out so I slowed down a bit here. Trail to bend then counted hills.
9 -- Mostly straight; passed Green Y control in clearing to ESE.
Managed to hold on to 2nd place, partly by attrition, but I was 20 minutes back of Mary Jo who had another pretty decent run with a few little bobbles, she said.
FR = 5.971 km / 82m climb