orienteering race 1:36:54 [4] 6.8 km (14:15 / km) +220m 12:16 / km
Red course at French Creek. Very, very hot and humid. Very buggy as I worked epunch most of the day as well - two bee stings, two deer fly bites and a swollen ear from some sort of biting nuisance.
At the start I noticed I didn't have my watch on but since it was epunching I decided not to bother going back to my car to get it. Then about half way to the first control I realized I also didn't have my compass and decided what the heck, I'd do the course without it. It was pretty challenging but a lot of fun. It cost me probably 10 minutes or so, just in going slow to make sure I could keep track of where I was and in taking a few roundabout routes that had more obvious features. I did quite a bit of running on a contour which is not something I consciously think about doing very often. I may end up running on a contour but don't often use that as a navigational tool. And given the heat and humidity, today was probably a reasonable day to take it a bit easy.