Orienteering race 1:24:06*** 8.47 km (9:56 / km) +315m8:23 / km ahr:113 max:169 spiked:17/20c shoes: VJ Falcons 8
Red course at Hawk Mountain Scout Reservation. 7.1k, 255m. 40+ degrees colder than yesterday with some drizzle. Much better for running but wtf? Nice course by Sam Kolins with transitions from the complexity of the scout camp to the more subtle rock and mountain laurel covered hillside. Visibility was very good and underbrush not bad since leaves haven’t emerged yet.
An OK run. Overshot 9 by not reading the rocks and laurel correctly (and being off on the bearing) - 2-3 min. Control 11 was it a pit and I spent an extra minute or so looking for it even though there were good adjacent features to use. A couple of other smaller execution errors (10, 12 and 17)
Orienteering race 1:25:35*** 8.24 km (10:23 / km) +271m8:55 / km ahr:140 max:162 spiked:8/10c shoes: VJ Falcons 8
SVO event at Oregon Ridge - Red course (6.9k, 200m). Temperature in the low 80s and sunny so there was a lot of walking and plenty of water consumed at water stops. Woods were wide open and without the canopy leafed out yet there was no shade to be found. Big spur and reentrant terrain with some trails and occasional vegetation (all of it pretty passable). An OK run (walk) with errors on controls 1 and 5. Chased a flag approaching 1 for maybe a 1 min loss. Overshot 5 (was on the correct spur but on top rather than down along the side) and used the houses and fences to figure things out. Lost about 3 min. Thanks to Brad W and the rest of the SVO crew for organizing.