Orienteering 1:27:00 [3]
Flying Pig Day 3. Carter Caves. Red, 7.7k w/ 400-something climb = 1:36ish
Woohoo! I could run. Being able to move through the woods made today much more fun. Towards the end I felt a little achiness but it wasn't enough to be a concern other than to not leap and land on that leg. I can say that I ran about as fast as my running fitness would allow.
Nav was also good. I was please that I was pretty much spot on the point features on slopes. Those are often my nemesis. The cliffs and boulders on C11-C13 reminded me of SR2 (though very much bigger); that experience motivated me to slow down, really understand the map, and formulate good plans. Definitely paid off as I didn't loseany time on these.
Space Monkey and I were close from C8 through C14. We most often took slightly different routes and then reconverged. My presense helped him a bit at C12 and seeing him exit C16 expedited my finding that little boulder as I knew I didn't need to look to the right. Otherwise, it seemed we were mostly doing our own thing.
The only time I got a little off track was to C14 when I got mixed up on the trails. When I hit the big gully/rentrant and had boulders in front of me I knew something was off. Figured out quickly I had to climb. Went right up to the bag reconverging with Space Monkey who came from the direction that I had planned to come from.
AP credits me a loss of a minute and a half on the way to C7. That's solely due to stopping and retying both shoes. Since it was cold I put them on in the car but I never get a good tie cramped up in the car; should have known better to redo them.