Orienteering race 1:09:00 [4] **** 7.37 km (9:22 / km) +100m 8:46 / km
spiked:8/12c
DNC at Cambus. Started off smoothly enough 1-3, then while taking my gloves off on the move I managed to drop my compass. Spent a couple of minutes looking for it but in dark snowy heather didn't stand much chance, so decided just to plough on without. A lot of the legs were quite easy to simplify and had easy aps. Biggest error at no 7, hit green strip as planned but then came out at the wrong angle and onto the wrong knoll. Figured out what had happened and headed to the NW, but didn't go far enough and lost confidence. Eventually relocated off cairn to SW and back more or less to same spot. Also errors at 4, 5, 8. Enjoyed it all the same and was actually really good practice to navigate without a compass. Noticeable that I was much more attacking in my running and physically felt pretty good.