Orienteering race (Score-O) 56:52 [4] *** 6.5 km (8:45 / km)
spiked:15/16c shoes: Nike Air Terra Humara
Genesse Valley Park Score-O, warm and humid day. My plan at the start was to grab 7 and then work the river to 11 - I might have thought the road was a viable "non-golf course" path, and after the gate was locked, I thought the trail along the river was a fine alternate - until I saw Nate coming back...
This was about a 3 minute loss back to 7...
The route was then 4, 3, 5, 6, 2, 9.
I didn't see 1 in the field or I might have grabbed it then. Looking now, I don't see a big difference either way.
I jumped from 9 to the road and then reached 16. I started on, but lost the trails from 16 to 15 as the one oops of the day. I kept working the right direction and came out to the larger trails and made out ok. Certainly a few minutes of lost time there.
14 and 13 came easily - I estimated 8 "forefinger" segments to the end and thought that if I could get from 15 to 14 under 4 minutes I'd be ok to get the remaining controls - and was happy to get there under that time.
I was following another runner towards 12, but they never left the road. I was fairly certain I knew where the bend was, but kept on the road - and was absolutely certain I reached the next bend - and took off into the woods at an angle to hit the road or trail - and did so, scoring 12,
The trip back picked up 11, 10, 8, then 1. Guessing distance based on Mike's log...
Orienteering race (Sprint) 21:32 [4] 3.26 km (6:36 / km)
spiked:8/8c shoes: Nike Air Terra Humara
Genesee Valley Park Sprint, warm day - after an hour of score-O;-)
Nice sprint though it shared several controls with the Score-O. Bit of a bobble after 2 when an unmapped parking lot caused me to check that I really wanted to go that direction. (the bridges can get one turned around a bit)
I think I held a very tight line from 5 to 6 across the large open area. I noticed Stina coming into 6 from the paved path on the right.
I took the second bridge to 7, and that path instinctively looks shorter to me - Mike and Nate took the first and then the road bridge coming down into the control.
I'll enter splits later on.