Discussion: Questions

1) Are those brown triangles charcoal platforms or something else?
2) How did that trail route choice to 14 work out for you? It looked like pretty smooth execution.

Nice racing! Thanks for letting those of us with no orienteering live vicariously through you.

1) Those are ant nests. At #8 the one where the control was was hiding behind a tree and there was another one(that was not mapped) at the edge of the circle, most of the elite ran past the control to the one that was not mapped.

2) My plan was to go straight but there was a nice direct line to the trail so I saw it from far away and thought why not. Straight would have been atleast 20seconds faster but given how tired I was I think it was safe to choose the trail.

I'm happy to share! Two more races coming up but tomorrow some much needed rest! The ground here is so rocky that even if the map looks good(mostly white) its actually pretty physical.