Orienteering race 2:01:10 [4] *** 11.9 km (10:11 / km) +525m 8:21 / km
23c slept:6.75
US Team Trials, Long Blue.
A pretty fine effort, given the legs were a little tired going into this race. I had two errors that were too large, and some smaller stuff. The big errors were on C14 and C20. On C14, I had punched C13 just before Ted, but couldn't get up the hill as quickly as he did. I closed some of the gap running across the field, but the visibility was poor in the early part of the woods and I lost sight of him. I saw him again when my pace count said I was within 50m of the control, but I couldn't tell whether he had already punched and got distracted. Then some teenager started yapping at me, asking where he was. I said there was a field up the hill, go relocate. He kept pestering me and I got flustered and had to climb partway to the field to relocate myself, and came right down into the reentrant. He followed me to the control and again asked where he was. This allowed Ross to get in, punch and get out, without my being able to leave.
On the way to C20, I was distracted by a flag that was too early. I saw it was in a pit and saw a pit on the map, so I ran in the indicated direction. Oops, wrong pit - the flag was in the v, not in the u. So I got to run past Mike M the photographer 3 times - once to the wrong boulders, once to the correct spot, and then leaving the control correctly. It looks like I got a nice photo out of the deal anyway.
More later...