Orienteering race 1:19:52 [3] *** 5.2 mi (15:21 / mi) +100m 14:30 / mi
spiked:11/14c shoes: VJ Falcon w spikes
Fort Rock Local O Event. Red Course. (6.4 k distance). Nice course set by Deb. A mix of route choice legs and easy legs. What made the course challenging were the new logging cuts which were on the lighter side, which meant there were no clear vegetation boundaries; also the dense leaf fall on the trails which made it difficult to see them and to select correct forks at junctions etc. That threw me off a couple of times. Also the golden glow from the beech/birch trees that still retained their leaves obscured some of the flags.
Poor route choice to 3, too far west and along the hill side - ended up running through endless rocky ground.
Lost a little to 9, drifting too far east out of 8 being opportunistic and ran too fast without checking compass.
One big (5 min) mistake at 13. I just was brain-dead and assumed it would be straightforward. Ended up running through 3 reentrants and missing the control by meters - had to relocate at the big boulder NW. Otherwise I had fun, had a lot of energy - legs did not mind jumping over rocks of which I did a lot. Well it is Fort Rock after all. After comparing splits with Jon, it looked like I outran him - it has been the other way around this fall. Perhaps just a bit of home court advantage at play here.
Optimal time would have been 70 minutes.