Orienteering race 1:33:45 [4] 10.6 km (8:51 / km)
West Point Blue Classic - 6th, well back of the Ross/Will/Wil cluster with Brian and Eddie in between. Again not a terrible race technically but not good and this time I had a disaster, an even bigger tenth control blowup - almost six minutes going by Winsplits - plus a few smaller bobbles and an apparently quite slow route on the longish, often thick, downhill leg to 14. Felt at the time and afterwards as though I wasn't running very well physically but the evidence of the splits doesn't seem to bear this out. Pity something seems to be bollixed about the Winsplits for legs 6 and 7 but my without mistakes time compared to Wil and Ross, who also seem not to be affected by the problem, appears to suggest I can't have been much below par physically.
Regarding the tenth control, damned if I know quite what went wrong during my initial attack. I started over the saddle and past the marsh heading pretty much due east. I thought I then checked off two cliffs north of my route but after than the terrain suddenly stopped making sense to me. It appears I was initially too far north when I stopped because I knew I'd gone far enough so maybe I was offline early and spotted different clifflike things than I thought. In any case, I then went uphill to the small open hill slightly north of the control to try to get a better view of my surroundings as an aid to relocation. I might have pulled the fat out of the fire then if it hadn't appeared to me that there was a mappable boulder there, though in retrospect it must have been just shy of 1 meter high. In any case, I gave up on relocating in situ and headed off to eventually do so based on the major landforms north of the control.