I tried to remember and put into practice everything I knew about orienteering before yesterday, with special concentration on Ian's special tutelage from yesterday of paying better attention to all of the features around me.
I do know that today I always had contact with the map, had (imo) good route plans, and executed them for the most part exactly as planned or modified as needed based on what I saw.
Surprise!!! I believe it helped quite a bit... and that my better results were NOT just a result of luck (although I think I am overdue for that as well).
It perhaps also helped that this was a mass start with one course, so although most of the time I didn't really see others around.... when I did, I integrated this into my "clues" and of course it's always reassuring not to be the ONLY one somewhere for an hour or more.
Result....... I broke my streak of messing up at least one or two BIG time on a course.
I know by now that O-ing does not have continuous improvement, but maybe I can get the trend back in the right direction.....
Orienteer (Happy Jack) 1:45:00 [3] 3.0 km (35:00 / km)
shoes: Icebug Spirit-L olx
I d id the same slow and careful exercise I did yesterday, without compass and without an Ian to set me back on track. The first five controls (backwards) were picture perfect but then my brain turned off and I COULD NOT reboot. Very fortunately, I ran into Soupbone and Jan doing their memory-O (coming from the opposite direction).
Soupbone later told me the control I had been looking for was in slightly wrong re-entrant.... but it was too late for my brain to come back on. I found one more control, with difficulty, with compass, and realized that there was nothing more to be gained.... just too tired. Struggled back in.