orienteering race 1:47:47 [3] **** 8.28 km (13:01 / km)
spiked:17/18c shoes: VJ Integrator #3
Mt. Tom Farsta, Long. After decideing to skip the CH sprint, Nancy and I showed up for the noon event. I saw the road route to the first control quickly, and headed off that way at a reasonably relaxed pace, but I was in the lead for a while. I was eventually passed by Eddie and Ali, but kept them in sight, such that I saw them ahead of me leaving the first control. Unfortunately, finding the control proved more difficult. I must have passed within sight of it a couple of times, but I think nearly four minutes got lost before I punched, and numerous people passed through in the meantime. Using a somewhat relaxed definition of "spike", I spiked the rest of them. No real troubles, maybe a couple of suboptimal routes, but not breaking any speed records, either. I ended up in 15th place, which is fine, pretty much behind only people I had no hope of beating. Next in front of me was Alex (who had the same forking), by about four minutes, which I basically lost on that first control.