Orienteering race 2:42:04 [2] 13.9 km (11:40 / km) +280m 10:36 / km
slept:8.0
Blue Hills Traverse
It was probably really dumb to do this a week before the marathon, but I couldn't resist the excuse to visit Chelsea.
Got off to a terrible start, with too much rocky footing. Should have been a trail / road run, but I fell back because of the rocks and got distracted by the wrong people. By the time I got out to the road, I was way back. Took the left trail option to C2, and found clean running near the highway to C3.
I spiked 5, 6 and 7 and just about caught JJ on the way to 8. Went past the staties' place to 9. Strayed too far right to 10 (on the trail too long), so went thru the marsh and did extra climbing. Someone was behind me, so instead of going out the easy way, I tried going straight and got hung up a bit.
Leaving 11 was not fun, since I had already done the climb once. The rest of the way was pretty straightforward, until 18, which I had to really hunt for.