Orienteering race 2:21:54*** 11.91 km (11:55 / km) +123m11:20 / km ahr:123 max:153 22c shoes: Inov-8 200s
Meet 8 Race 9 Woodland Trails Purple 8.7k
This was good and not so good. Well set course and lots of opportunity for route choice. A few too many controls too close to giant trees in the forest that seemed to block the sight line for my approaches (If I could have predicted it, I would have changed). Started after there was about 1-1.5 inches of snow. It didn't cause problems with wearing glasses but it completely flattened out any visual contrast, obscured sheets of ice and "trails". This is a map that always piques my enthusiasm but the amount of dead ash trees and honeysuckle are just making the vegetation mapping and running into a mess. I need a trip here with good weather to improve my view (note last time, it dumped snow for the last half of the race to the point of filling my glasses ;/
Felt the strain of back-to-back long runs. Need to rest then keep working on this.
Orienteering3:18:00*** 18.52 km (10:41 / km) +593m9:13 / km ahr:143 max:164 27c shoes: Inov-8 200s
Meet 7 Race 8 A Big Goat, 13.2k
This was nicely set by Aragorn and a pretty continuous workout. Mistakes on 3 (big), 13 (enormous), and 18 (not so big) added a lot of time and effort. The first was a parallel error, for the second I diverted up a large rapidly draining reentrant rather than following the creek?!, and the last was a moderate overshoot. Felt good through 12, worked over to 20 and then skipped to 22. This allowed some faster running and I met Greg after punching it so I tried not to die for the rest of the race.
Control clearing/setup33:23 1.4 mi (23:51 / mi) +176m17:08 / mi ahr:122 max:158 6c shoes: Inov-8 200s