Orienteering (Osso da Baleia) 52:12 [3] 7.5 km (6:57 / km) +40m 6:47 / km
shoes: Inov8 oroc 280
A much better map than what we have run on and more to my liking than most of the other maps...
Messed up early (wasn't confident going in to 1 and so I made sure that I was in the right place). Went to 4 instead of 2... and then proceeded to continue to 3 (before hitting the road and realising what an idiot I was).
5: Thought that I had followed the small ridge into the control, but struggled here.
6: Very shallow reentrant and so I struggled again.
9: I had the perfect attack points and executed the leg well. I am just not so sure of the reentrant itself or exactly where the control was placed (I can be pretty blind even when right next to the control...).
11: Took a safer route to this control instead of taking the faster riskier option...
12: Hit it bang on, which I was quite happy about.
14: Couldn't read the green well in this area so went one green patch to the north..
15: Silly and went to the rough open clearing first.
17: Almost did the same thing as Sarah ;). Started going up the ridge instead of across to the depression.
Had a much better run in the second half and was moving well through the forest. I always seem to run better on actual courses (instead of training courses), I suppose that the focus is different (these controls were a lot less technical).
Control descriptions on this map definitely helped.