Orienteering race (sprint champs) 20:29 [5] *** 2.73 km (7:30 / km)
spiked:16/16c slept:6.0 shoes: Trail NB 704 8.5D
See entry below for FR track.
Brown sprint at SML Champs, Genesee Valley Park in Rochester. SL 1.9 km, 45m climb. Temp in the low to mid 70s with a breeze (headwind was pretty strong during our drive west from Albany area, gusting in places). Nice course by Mike Lyons with some good tests of concentration.
Finished 6th F60 of ~14(?), 4th US behind Patty Lyons, Diana Todd and Mary Jo...Diana and MJ tied! 29th of 81 finishers on Brown. Marion Owen (mbo, from Canada) was FAST at about 15:34, only about a minute and a half behind the Brown course winner. She'll probably be one of the ones to beat in F55-64 next weekend at North Americans, too.
AP lists me with 31 sec of error, and I think I could have made up most of that taking the right-hand/western-most bridge from 5 to 6. At first it looked like a wash to me to use either bridge, but as I topped the bridge I realized I'd have to zig and zag under the highway, up and over a footbridge, and then back under the highway, though from there I could see the tree and flag easily. Coming via the other bridge would have involved two straight lines running then just swinging around the green so maybe a bit faster. I lost time to other stronger hill-climbers going from 12-13 (under the bridge south of the pavilion near finish to the tree east of the green blob). Someone came down that way into the control so rather than look more at the map and think about it I just headed up the hill. It would probably have been just as steep going around the green to the field or up the white woods, routes I never really considered on the fly.
Some specifics:
1--south from start triangle and around the green blob instead of through
3--I saw this was the underpass symbol so figured it would be down the hill
7--took the left/southern fence break because I hadn't seen the right/northern one until after punching
8--saw someone heading toward the break (George Hawes?) and went that way
9--rather than try to find the small path I ran around the green and into the veg corner I'd seen when punching 6. Dennis zoomed past me to punch and then headed through the woods to the western bridge so I followed him out
11--around the veg (rather than through)
13--up the loose slope from the path keeping along the guiderail
14--such a cute building! Ex-guardhouse???