Orienteering race 22:55 [5] 3.5 km (6:33 / km) +20m 6:22 / km
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon
NAOC Sprint Course 3 (M55). Much better today. I had a fine run, except for one really bad mistake on #8. Bashing through the woods from 7, passed one little trail, came to a larger trail and thought it was the wide one, saw the junction to my right and thought it was where the wide trail left the road and I was too far south. So I ran north on the trail, it made no sense, came back, saw the junction for what it was (the triangular one) and got back on track. Lost about a minute and a half. One more small mistake overrunning #10, bouncing back off the trail.
I ran really well after that, grabbing a couple of top splits, but the two mistakes drove the result, 10th on the course.
The NAOC was a great production this year, and it was really nice to be a part of it.