Orienteering race (long) 1:40:25 [4] *** 6.3 km (15:56 / km) +170m 14:03 / km
spiked:9/13c shoes: Jala Jukola Spider 6 #3
Green long course on Gold Rush Hills map, Idaho City, ID, temps in upper 40s to mid 50s at our early starts (just after 9 am).
Good routes to 1 and 2, then apparently did well to 3 -- others I talked to had trouble, I think trying to follow the beeline. I went slightly left of the line and hit a trail junction and was able to figure out which junction it was.
Twisted my left ankle (again!) in a pothole in a field on the way to 4; sat for 30 seconds, got up and hobbled for a minute or so, and then continued, but not reading terrain well. I hit the stream bed beyond the control, corrected back to a trail, and followed it to closer to the control (by which time there was another runner heading in).
Good routes to 5, 6, and 7; at 8 I dropped a contour too low on the wrong side of a thicket (but did well reading which spur to descend). Lots of ups and downs to 9; climb to road for 10. On the way in to 10 started hearing a sound that didn't quite sound like cows -- turned out there were several hundred SHEEP in the 200m between the stream and my control in a little reentrant, including one no more than a dozen feet away. I saw a person (shepherd?) and a border collie on my way out. Glen also had that control, though much earlier in his course, and had also seen the sheep.
CLIMB to the next control; I took the wrong reentrant and ended up even higher (a couple of contours and several hundred meters away) than I needed to be on a spur NE of my reentrant -- ugh. And then I visited the finish before the go control which was 60 m away up the reentrant. Still managed a first place (of 3 on F50) finish, 20 or so minutes ahead of Ardis and Sally Dow.
Note
Then we started our drive across Oregon, finishing up just north of Portland in Vancouver, WA for the night. We're skipping the mid-week O days.