Running 7:30 [1] 1.5 km (5:00 / km)
shoes: 201506 Asics Fuji Attack 4
Quick warmup with two laps of the high school and some drills.
Orienteering 1:02:42 [4] 6.94 km (9:02 / km) +260m 7:36 / km
17c shoes: 201408 Inov-8 Bare-grip 200
Red course at Baldwin. The day was perfect: 10 C, clear skies, slight breeze. I arrived at 11:15 - about an hour later than planned because waking up was a slow process.
While the terrain was as interesting as it always is, the ground was covered with a dense carpet of fallen leaves. Footing was challenging, especially in the areas of dense rockfall. In a nutshell, I was disappointingly slow. I recently saw a quickroute Thierry posted in which he called a fifteen degree course adjustment on a leg an error. I had some mistakes:
- C1: 1 minute, missed by about 50m on my ascent, hesitated, bounced off some rocks
- C4: 10s, little hesitation getting confused reading the depressions
- C5: spike, but climbed very slowly
- C6: probably bad route choice; I went right rather than cutting left to a trail. I also lost about a minute in the circle when I misinterpreted the features and they were subtler than I expected.
- C10: bad route choice the other direction; I again went straightish rather than taking a trail
- C11: 45s, missed right, bounced off a wall