Orienteering race (Sprint) 16:29 [5] *** 1.5 km (10:59 / km) +90m 8:27 / km
shoes: Poison Ice Bugs
GLOF Sprint / Ontario Championship - This was a forested sprint so I wasn't sure how it would go for me. For some reason, I've been doing well at park and campus sprints over the past few years. Over the same time period, I've lost my touch for Middle distance so the change has not all been good.
As it turned out, the forest part wasn't the problem. The only control I blew was #1, less than 100 m from the start - before we even entered the forest. I wasn't paying attention to the map and I got drawn to the wrong flag, which wasted about 30 seconds. After that, it felt like things went OK but I wouldn't have said it was outstanding.
As it turned out, it was my best run of the weekend and it stood up pretty well. I won my age group and took home a pair of the awesome new red Canada mittens from The Bay. My best two splits (2nd of 30 on the course) were late in the race on legs that involved steep climbs up big, slippery embankments. I guess everyone has his or her specialty and mine is a little weird! I'm sure we'll need to do some steep climbs in Salomon Dontgetlost.ca Raid The Hammer so I'll get to practise this again soon.