Orienteering race 2:10:00 [4] *** 3.5 km (37:09 / km) +50m 34:40 / km
spiked:5/12c shoes: INOV8 Bare Grips
Middle distance at Eagle Creek Park-East. Messed up on 1, and relocated back to start. The next four legs were good. I went down to the trail crossing the creek to go to 5, and it was a treacherous crossing on concrete culverts and slabs. Six, seven, eight and nine were all in depressions, in an area of depressions, and basically flat. I looked and found lots of other people's controls, and finally found 8. Then I went to six, and tried to go to seven. Couldn't find it, and went back to eight. I thought maybe my compass work was really bad, but I beelined right to seven, then hit eight. Again, I tried to find 9, couldn't, and decided I would probably be overtime if I kept looking, so I headed in and picked up the last control on the way. Bummer.