orienteering (course setting) 41:23 [1] 2.07 km (20:01 / km)
spiked:1/1c shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 280 #1 (blue)
A little excursion with Phil and Nancy to investigate a control location and do some terrain enhancement. I think things should be quite fine, certainly fine enough.
orienteering 59:24 [3] 5.51 km (10:47 / km) +258m 8:44 / km
spiked:8/11c shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 280 #1 (blue)
Mt. Tom, Green quarantine training course, 4.6 km, 270 m. Phil said that he'd be surprised if I could beat his time, and I said I'd be very surprised. Like Phil, I had looked at the map and thought a little about routes, but then forgot almost all of it, other than my plan for getting to the last control. I went out pretty casually, and on the way to #1 I didn't feel like going downhill when the trail went down, so I did some sidehill contouring through loose basalt instead and still came out well below the control. Then on #2 I turned off from the main reentrant when I saw a knoll that looked good, but I guess it was too small to be on the map, so there was a bit of a detour and some hesitation there. So after that inauspicious start, there really wasn't much hope, but I did get my act together and navigated pretty well for most of the rest of the course. At some point I looked at my watch and things seemed to be going fairly well, and I wondered if I could break an hour. But then I saw the big climb to #9 and decided that wasn't going to happen. Nancy was on Brown, and I passed her fairly early on that leg. I was climbing better than I expected, and decided I needed something to slow me down. I spotted a 3-point deer shed, and that was just the thing, I carried it around the rest of the course. A little error on #10, too far south and I went for the knoll instead of the spur, which was obvious as soon as I looked at my map, so a little time lost there. Then out to the road as per my plan, and no problems the rest of the way, breaking an hour with breathing room. Well behind Ian, that's to be expected, but as for Phil, well... hmm, I wonder if I should substitute in Nancy's split for the Brown leg to give myself a bogus Brown time. :-)