Running warm up/down 11:55 2.01 km (5:56 / km) +28m5:33 / km ahr:137 max:150 shoes: Mizuno Waverider 25
Orienteering1:33:47**** 10.99 km (8:32 / km) +623m6:39 / km ahr:170 max:192 spiked:14/21c shoes: Icebug Spirit 8
Sage Stomp Long. Good to get out on some rocky maps before JWOC. Lots of cliffs and some bare rock and openness.
1 - Good, although the 1:15000 scale had me a bit concerned after seeing all the rock detail 2 - Not into the map yet so got a little messed up by what was mapped and what wasn't as well as the best areas to run. Lost 30s 3 - Mostly good but a small hesitation just before I could see the control 4 - Should have gone a bit more direct at the start since I didn't end up saving much (if any) elevation. In the circle, I saw some smaller cliffs/rocky areas that weren't mapped so small mistake <30s 5 - Noice 6 - I sure do love 65m of climb on a 200m leg. 7 - Slow up the hill but good route and nav 8 - Had someone in front of me so could follow them a little 9 - Exited with the guy I was behind but then figured its a bad idea to follow someone here and passed him on my way but ended up climbing a bit more than I needed due to the bad exit 10 - Had a good plan but the hill was kinda rocky in more places than on the map so got pushed further left than expected and took some extra distance. Adams route was probably safer 11 - Good side chilling 12 - the lake extended much farther than shown so ended up way underrunning. lost 80s 13 - Good 14 - probably shoulda gone straight since I only saved a few contours 15 - was about to bobble a little then saw the boulder and nailed it 16 - Good, could see the control from a mile away 17 - Good route, got first 18 - Good 19 - Didn't plan to use the hill as an attack point but it turned out nicely 20 - right on the path may have been faster but all the fast people went left so we will never know 21 - ran a little left since I saw the finish chute but it was just hidden behind a little berm so had to run back up a little
Overall: The main thing holding me back was my legs. Once I got into the map my nav was pretty smooth. Did pretty mediocre on most legs but was consistent so landed in second.