Orienteering 40:58 [3] *** 3.1 km (13:13 / km) +155m 10:34 / km
9c
WOC Middle Qual, Course A, Jervskogen
Well, first half went really well, second half not so much, particularly control #6 where I lost ~6 min at least. Gosh! A bit disappointing, was in 10th til then. But mistakes are part of the game, and almost everyone lost some time out there.
1- Most proud of this really. Despite the girls I started with being around, I was focused and went straight to my control. It was tough too, uphill, in green.
2- Straight up hill.
3- I choose to head to the pond as my route choice, which I think was fine. Let me know I was exactly there, then come through a rentrant, well setup to the control.
4- Not that fast, picked my way this way and that way, but didn't totally lose contact. Actually, my GPS track (ie. the truth) went up a different little reentrant than I thought I did, so not in perfect contact, but added things up quickly enough that no damage.
5- Down the marsh, and to the wrong cliff. Gr. Came back and found the right one.
6- Oh, so painful to watch my GPS track. I went down to the marsh, then through the rocky gap, so knew exactly where I was. Then stayed in that deep reentrant a bit too much, and headed up the linear marsh to a marsh, instead of the dry hillside which was earlier. Then didn't realize things weren't adding up immediately, and tried to execute a plan that made no sense. Eventually relocated coming all the way back to the big cliffs, and even then, didn't do a very good job, so frustrating!!!
7- Well, this was also painful. Went straight to the control, but then looked at the number on my control description thought I needed 118, and saw 74 on the control. There was a guy at it taking pictures or radioing, so I went off, embarrased trying to figure out where I was again, but no, actually was my control, I read the next control number by mistake...
8- Down to trail along, into woods to all the cameramen, which made it pretty obvious.
9- Took the straight, level, route choice through some gaps in trees, think that was good.
Finish- Slightly twisted right ankle on way down. Gr. But it's not bad at all really.
Takeaway- Need more experience in this stuff, should have earlier suspicions and double-checks on #6.