Radio Orienteering race 1:57:05 [5] ***** 10.0 km (11:43 / km) +300m 10:11 / km
5c shoes: Inov8 X-Talon 212 CL
US ARDF Champs - 144 MHz Classic. Bounced back from yesterday's debacle with a win for the gold today. 2nd consecutive M40 gold in US Champs 144 MHz Classic. Started out terrible, lots of chaos for me...spent too much time in the soup bowl of reflections down low. Was extremely frustrated and had all kinds of problems deciphering what was going on. But after I finally hit #1 I stayed higher on the terrain and clawed back. At least had the wisdom to save #3 for last since it was one of the few things I could figure out early on. So went to 2 then 4. Coming out of 4 I utilized the far west trail to transit to the other side of the map and to get to #3 vicinity which worked great and ran hard. Kept fast pace rest of the run through #3 and finish. It was a grueling, physical, challenging and technical run, definitely the toughest 144 MHz Classic I've had so far. Was just happy to have found all the TXs!
