NAOC Long. Yikes.
2 was my first mistake. I'm thinking I lost around 3:30-4 minutes. Passed between the two marshes and got thrown off by a ride-looking thing that wasn't mapped, missed my reentrant, messed around in the woods, and bailed back to the marsh to relocate.
3 was good, 4 I was on the spur below the hilltop for a while before I realized it (-30s ?), then thought I was leaving 3 when I left 4 but recovered quickly.
6 and 7 were good, and then 8... oh boy. would have been good, but I got off on my compass and lost map contact and ended up on the small trail about 200m ENE of 7. ran W to the intersection, figured out where I was, rest of course was fine from there.
Overall was super frustrated when I finished and annoyed that 2 huge mistakes had ruined an otherwise great race for me. The win was a surprise and although it feels good, I'm not going to take it as a pass for success a race that was subpar and not clean.
3D RerunControl Challenge: 435