orienteering race 20:13 [4]
Grizzly Orienteering was very accommodating and let Mary and I start a little early. We had a bit of a tight timeline to make it to the airport and get our Turo rental returned.
Sprint on the University of Montana campus. Fun course with plenty of route choice decisions to be made. None of the decisions were especially important, but you did have to make a decision. I had one mistake where I got a bit off my planned line and then decided I'd best just keep going and take a different route. It didn't show up as an error in the splits, but it must have cost me a little time.
I spent a few extra seconds waking up some of the SI units. I also took a short stop when I rounded a corner and met a couple of older people using walkers heading toward the control. I figured it was best to let them pass by as opposed to shove them out of the way and save a few seconds.
As I understand it, the map was made remotely with the help of someone moving around the campus with a video camera (maybe a Gopro or something similar). That's an interesting way to map an urban sprint area.
I felt like I ran pretty hard on the run in. Maybe I could beat Mary? I waiting for her to finish ad she flew from the last control to the finish punch. She beat me by 6 seconds on a leg that was about 100 meters. She also had the fastest split of anyone on any of the courses. She had a better time than any of the men or women who ran. That's pretty cool.
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