Orienteering race 1:19:31 [4] 6.6 km (12:03 / km) +240m 10:12 / km
shoes: Icebug olx 2nd
U.S. Nationals Long Green. Bad start, losing about 10 minutes on the first control. I had a vague idea I was going to run through the white woods to the contour change, then follow it to the control. But I wasn't reading the map well, didn't know if it was up or down, never got there, and headed into the green, ran right through the reentrant and out the other side, found the ridge but lost all track of distance and continued all the way to about the 3-4 crossing before turning back. I was resigned to going back to the road for a do-over when I dropped into the reentrant and found the control.
After that I had a good run. It seems to me there was only one really good leg on this course, 5-6. The leg from 3-4 had a fairly obvious route choice, and on 8-9 the only route I considered was the long road run. It might have been faster to go straight (if you executed well) but not enough faster to justify the risk.
