Orienteering race 2:02:30 [4] *** 7.8 km (15:43 / km) +245m 13:35 / km
spiked:10/13c slept:6.5 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
Green course at HVO-Westmoreland Sanctuary in Mt Kisko. Temp around 50 and overcast. Nominally 6 km / 235m
I hate making errors on the first control, but that's what I did here, doubting myself and the map, and relocating from near the trail 5 contours up from where I was supposed to be. I think I was almost to it but the hill seemed to me to be curving away (re-entrant-ing) much more than mapped. D'oh.
Then good for the next three, but overshot number 5 because there was more rock out there than mapped and I went by it. I eventually decided I'd gone too far and returned. Glen passed me on the rocky, leaf-covered downhill leaving the control as I carefully picked my way down.
Fine on most of the rest, with a nice trail interlude on the long leg 7-8. I hooked around the hill to 10 instead of going between it and the next one so I'm counting it as a non-spike.
Lots of trails and stone walls on this map make relocating easy at least. New map from lidar and undergoing refinements but in pretty good shape. Nice course and a good workout. I was in last place on green when we left....