Orienteering race (sprint) 34:03 [4] *** 2.3 km (14:48 / km) +70m 12:51 / km
Sprint at Salmon La Sac. An interesting combination of trail running and short, technical legs. I didn't have any major technical issues, but I got tired of running the trails and decided to take a fairly long leg through some medium green to a yellow patch. I pretty much knew that I'd lose time doing this, but just felt like some variety. I figure I lost about 4 minutes and haven't analyzed the splits enough to be sure. Messed up #10 somehow. I took the trail across the stream and then followed the yellow and stream toward the control, but apparently what I followed wasn't really the stream since I ended up quite a bit off to the right and had to run back to the actual mapped stream. I've heard a few others who had a similar experience so the map may be funky in this area. Ended up second in age class to Karin Didisse.
