Orienteering race 1:24:55 [3] *** 9.47 km (8:58 / km) +427m 7:19 / km
spiked:10/13c shoes: X-Talon 212
GNC Red, Day 2 6.6 km
A day of happiness punctuated by a mental pause. I was expecting rougher terrain but with a few exceptions found it no better or worse than day 1. Ran ok through C4 except for the difficulties of running into the sun, skipped the very short easy leg to C5 and realized it at C6 after the worst of the green bar rubbish of the day. This was very irritating with the only perk being my absolutely certainty that I had missed C5. So, I took off back easily getting to 5, where I met Mike (he started 8 min after me). Then, I turned it around and repeated C6, hopping through the slash, but sloppily overcompensated between the parallel error possibilities and ending up one reentrant over. Took a longish breath, reset my head, and then had a decent race afterwards. In looking at route choices, I made route choices very similar to Spike except two small differences for C10 and 12. Without these two linked errors totalling 15+ min, my pace was fine and I even felt quick at some points. In the end, even with this bad run I had my best GNC yet.