Orienteering race 2:04:51 [4] *** 159.38 km (47 / km) +145m 47 / km
spiked:4/9c shoes: INOV8 Bare Grips
Today was a disaster. Slow to get into gear going to 1. Good from 1 to 2. Then I came apart, starting with a bad route choice. Wandering up and down spurs. Lots of holes covered with leaves kept me looking at the ground more than the map or the terrain. Since I didn't know where I was enough to relocate, I didn't. Finally I found a dark green area, which I thought I could identify on the map, but so much time had elapsed by then, 1:35:05 from the second control, than I headed west to find the road and go in. I hit the hiway north of a gravel road fairly close to the last three controls, so definitely needing the practice, I picked up the last three. Again noticing that I seemed to be navigating to the right, just as I had done on the models. Not a happy person today. As a side note, after I got home and downloaded my Fitbit, it had me climbing 283 m during the race.
