Orienteering race 2:10:19 [3] **** 11.94 km (10:55 / km) +33m 10:46 / km
spiked:9/14c shoes: VJ Falcons 5
Long course at "The Barrens", 1:10000, 2.5m contours. Complex water feature and contour detail in the eastern part of the map (where most of the course was). Three long route choice legs in the range of 700 - 900 meters each.
A humbling experience. Executed the first long leg well but probably not the optimum route choice (Edit - after looking at the GPS trace, this leg was a fail, too. Apparently I wasn't bothering to check my compass and got way off to the east. Recovery was by luck.). Total fail on execution of the second long leg (somehow did a 180 partway through). Did the third long leg well until the very end where I missed from my attackpoint. Went a bit brain dead for the next few controls and bungled around actually finding the bags at the end of the legs (not helped by the hidden bag at #9). Managed to refocus for the last part of the course and spiked the last four controls, although I would've taken the road route choice to 13 if I was fresher. Temperature about 10 degrees warmer than yesterday and not raining (sunny to start but then clouded up). Straightline distance 7.1k.
A long time out in the woods, but all good training. Thanks to the Ottawa club for putting this event on. Orienteering at the NAOCs should be awsome.
Road Run 15:21 [2] 2.2 km (6:58 / km) +17m 6:43 / km
shoes: VJ Falcons 5
Jog/walk to start (mostly along road).