Peaceful Valley Orienteering Race - Red
I ran a great race! I was moving well through the forest and other than a couple of controls that I didn't spike and hence hesitated my way into them I had no problems with navigation. Except for once.
When I was leaving #8 I began to read the map from 9 to 10. It was an easy mistake to make because the beginning of 8 to 9 closely resembles 9 to 10 terrain wise. The bearing was even similar enough to not raise any red flags. Once I realized I'd made a mistake I began searching around to relocate and found my #17. Once I realized my mistake I had no troubles anymore.
I did loose 5 minutes on that mistake which is huge! If you take 5 minutes off my time that would put me at 1:07:34 which is right up there with the 1st and 2nd place runners who were only at 1:06:something. Good to know I can still do this stuff...
Here's the Route Gadget:
http://www.rmoc.org/gadget/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?act=...