Orienteering race 1:30:20 [4]
6.7K course at Meramec. Overall a very good run on a beautiful day. Lost a few minutes on a couple bobbles, probably cost me 1st with Mark G beating me by 3 minutes. Legs tired - hard to run even on flats - felt like more than 3% climb.
Tried to be very careful on road run to #1. Still ended up right, then high looking for ruin on spur. -1-2 minutes - frustrating. I have a tendency to "cut the corner" a bit when it saves very little time.
3-4: Did not see trail in big re-entrant, so chose high and left with long ridge run. Even considering trail, tough call since trail was very curvy.
Played tag with group of 3 on Red - good practice. They were slightly faster but we stayed together most of the way.
7-8: Intending to go just right of red-line, lost focus and got too high right. Hesitation as I tried to figure out what happened: -1-2 minutes.
Climb to ridge before 9 was really tough!