Canadian Championships, M21E Middle Distance, WRE. Map: One Duck Lake. Overall, I had a very solid but not spritely quick race and turned in a good performance when many others had errors. I finished fifth out of 50 and beat the other two Ians in the competition.
The terrain was very technical - apparently like Salmon La Sac map, and much like Harriman's rock and contour features but with thicker vegetation. I was incredibly happy to jog around the sample map, a 0.25 km^2 chunk of map adjacent to the course. The temperature was over 90 F, and I was definitely feeling the heat by the end of the course. The woods had a lot of ankle busting rocks and log scotch from dense patches of fallen trees.
The good: I ran a very clean race - I had some bobbles near the end as I started to get tired. My biggest execution error was about 45s at 15, but otherwise, I had nothing bigger than 30s. With one or two exceptions, I did a good job reading ahead, choosing good attackpoints, simplifying intelligently, and interpreting the map quickly.
The bad: I lacked much oomph, and near the end wasn't able to keep up with Will Enger and another guy whom I had caught. While I'm thrilled to have finished as high as I did, I was over seven minutes behind Thomas Nipen and Will Critchley. I also failed to meet my (arbitrary) goal of running under 40 minutes.
Stuff to work on: wood speed with bad footing (O-tervals), low-visibility navigation (Night/corridor-O), endurance and tenacity in the heat (tempo and long runs in hot conditions), executing "full speed, no mistakes."
Results.