Orienteering race 2:15:26 [4] **** 8.28 km (16:21 / km) +300m 13:51 / km
spiked:9/15c shoes: X-Talon 212
Straightline distance given for Mounds Red Long, my real distance might have been 12-13 km.
This was a bruiser. I was still wiped out from yesterday (intensity = a cross between the course and my state). I fell for the missed trail split that many others were bitten by, but my brain had fully shut down by this point so the error was the most massive. It was a long climb to the split, I missed it, was incapable of understanding my surroundings, knew that the only solution was to backtrack, got back to the split and then strangely ran pell-mell into the medium green. I can't explain why, in a normal world it makes no sense. I realized the error of my ways several minutes later only to turn and see a wall of greenbriar that seemed to climb endlessly into the sky :( My race ended there and I just tried to limp home.
The course by D. Waller was very good; I liked the challenges, the long legs and some of the frilly drainage tops. The stream crossing was soooo nice, I almost stopped to sit on the ledge. Some day in the future, I should pull out this map and redo the course.
Control clearing/setup 1:00:00 [2] 2.5 mi (24:00 / mi)
shoes: X-Talon 212
Pulling controls from the long.