Orienteering race (Vazquez Rocks) 1:00:58 [5] ***** 7.06 km (8:38 / km) +285m 7:11 / km
19c shoes: Oroc X-Talon Shadow
Vazquez Rocks Red course. Really chilly today. I started off really shaky and navigated well but simply didn't see the controls even when I was virtually standing on top of them... Then at #13 when the navigation got really hard, I thought I was smart and attempted to climb down a very narrow ledge that I thought would lead me to the control. One misplaced footfall later and I ended up falling/sliding uncontrollably down about 15-20 feet of bare rock and miraculously didn't injure anything. Oh, and guess what? I made a parallel error and had to continue further to get to the control. Great! Then, when things began going smoothly again, I decided to just very roughly navigate to the last control, since there were countless trails on the map and in the terrain, and I couldn't slow down to read them. One hilariously stupid parallel error later, and 2 minutes later, I found myself running out of a thicket onto the finish chute. Oops. Ran back to #19 and grumpily finished. For Vazquez Rocks, this race was relatively clean, but those few minutes of mistakes lost me first place...
