Orienteering1:20:22 [4] ***** 10.37 km (7:45 / km) +350m6:38 / km 16c
Another glorious day in Urbasa. Lost a good amount of time on #3 and #7. It was pretty difficult at 7 to find the corridor where the flag was placed. I was within 10 meters of it twice before finally finding it on the third time. I struggled to maintain a bearing to #10 through the green. A reminder that I need to get back to regular sessions on maps.
Orienteering1:00:46 [3] **** 6.62 km (9:11 / km) +150m8:15 / km 10c
I didn't have a map bag, sent my stash of bags back to the States. So, I was able to do 10 out of the 20 controls on this map before my map disintegrated in the wet conditions. Oh well. Beautiful forest to run in.
4 PM
Orienteering42:23 [4] ***** 7.07 km (5:59 / km) +160m5:23 / km 26c
It looks like the GPS wasn't too happy with the cloudy conditions and deep trenches between rocks. Only one major mistake when I overran #6. I didn't fully adjust to the 1:4000 scale by that point. A few more minor mistakes, but this was much better than my previous visits to this area last summer and in 2012.
Running hills 32:28 [5] 7.5 km (4:20 / km) +240m3:44 / km
4x4 minutes on the Parque del Oeste hill. More or less same distance and climb of 1k and 60m, but the recovery was a minute shorter. I really started feeling that on the last one. Great workout.