O race 1:12:59 [3] 8.33 km (8:46 / km) +144m 8:04 / km
ahr:137 max:163
Jim Sawkins Memorial Handicap event at Wild Deer Sands - mass start of about 25 orienteers on the Red 3 course (advertised as 7.1 kms) with a butterfly after control 1 to split the field. 22 controls in a technical area.
Did not have to really navigate until after control 13 after I got onto a train of 2 to 3 runners who had the same forking as me. Began to feel the effect after the 5 km mark and then missed on 3 controls before settling down to my own pace to finish the course. Interesting to be in a group and see faster junior runners coming thru over half way into the course (as they had stuffed up earlier controls). Great event and a great location - probably did about 8 to 10 minutes of errors in total over 3 controls - but I was getting tired by that stage.