Orienteering 40:00 [4]
shoes: Kainuu Integrators
An overall disappointing day at Shell Ridge, I just couldn't finish. Combination of factors drained my enthusiasm. The course was very steep (450 m climb), the ground was very hard and unforgiving, I felt dehydrated and hungery, and I got pretty bad blisters on both feet. Also, I started the course with big mistakes on #1 and #2. Actaully, I can't call #1 a mistake. The vegetation at shell ridge is VERY poorly mapped, and I seriously thought I had run off the map. So I stopped and backtracked to figure out where I was, which was the smart thing to do. In reality, the map was wrong. With #2, I made the mistake of continuing to depend on vegetation for navigation, when I should have realized it couldn't be trusted.
I don't understand why someone would bother to put vegetation on the map if they aren't going to make any effort to get it correct.
Running 30:00 [2]
shoes: Kainuu Integrators
Running to the start, and jogging back from control #8.