Orienteering race 42:25 [4] *** 2.7 km (15:43 / km) +95m 13:22 / km
spiked:8/11c shoes: Jala Jukola Spider 6 #3
NA Middle at Double Duck Flats near Cranbrook, BC
W55/M65, course 5 (2.7 km, 95 m climb, 11 controls)
Started off okay (correct bearing, etc. to 1, questioning myself just at the end but found it fine), then headed off to the trail that took me towards 3.... 2 was on the line from 1 to 3 and in an area of detail, and I suppose I was going too fast to notice until I got 150 m past it. Lost about 1:30 there.
Some others have noted that the purple used for "overprinting" the courses is close to the color of the brown contour lines. It certainly doesn't stand out as much as it could.
I definitely should have been more careful on the next leg. Need to add "estimate distance/time" to my list of skills to call on, as I ran WAY past my attackpoint down an indistinct trail, and ended up at the more major trail, a good 350 m NW of my control. A good 8 minute error, estimated from others' splits and my GPS track.
To 4 and 5 were fine (though again, 4 was on the line to 5), then I left 5 (water control at which a "lost" woman wanted to know where she was) and again wasn't careful in the rock detail. Good decision was to bail back out towards the trail I'd crossed rather than waste time searching cliffs. Hit the corner of the ditch/dirt pile feature and reattacked; lost 2 minutes on 6. Last 5 were easy along linear features, though I was a bit hesitant going to the last control as description was "distinct tree" and a blob of white was circled; finally decided it was the one I'd seen everyone else punch at before looping to the finish. Fast but careful on the run-in because I'd seen people fall. A clean run would have put me in the top 6, I think (though not top 3).
To do better: distance estimating. Skipped the glasses (cool and rainy) and only used magnifier today.
FR distance: 4.43 km (ugh), 118 m climb