orienteering race 1:14:20 [4] *** 6.4 km (11:37 / km) +125m 10:35 / km
18c shoes: Inov8 O-roc 280 Red
OCIN Flying Pig XXII - Elk Creek Park Classic - Green (F35+)
Day two was on an abandoned golf course which is being turned into a park. Mostly open with various types of footing, though lots of the areas (I guess the former rough?) were both hummocky and muddy which is hard going for me and my inability to pick up my toes. I tripped enough and once fell onto my knees and hands. The areas of shorter grass or almost barren land (fairways and greens?) were much smoother and easy to run on.
Did not have much run in me today. For whatever reason my legs just didn't want to turn over. Most of this was at a good fast walk. The most running I did was actually on the trails in the wooded hillside.
Only had a real moment of hesitation on 16 when I came out of the last control at kind of a weird angle and mistook the two rocks on the loop of trail for two small buildings, which of course I couldn't find since they didn't exist. But only lost a few seconds there, as there was only one big patch of woods and it was the right one.
Went north around the lake to the last control, though I noticed the potential for swimming and apparently one person took that choice.
After the race we went back and showered, then went to the Voice of America museum, which was cool. And only getting there an hour before closing, we didn't have time to look at everything very closely. So another one to visit again in the future.