walking warm up/down 20:00 [1] 2.0 km (10:00 / km)
weight:158lbs
warm up and cool down from remote parking lot to start/finish of Niagrara Falls Sprints. Included a little light jogging.
orienteering race 13:49 [5] ** 2.5 km (5:32 / km) +37m 5:09 / km
15c
Niagara Falls Sprint on Goat Island. Great Fun with spectacular views of the falls. Not particularly challenging navigationally. Lost a couple seconds each on 5 and 8 due to going the wrong side around the buildings, but hard to tell for sure. On 5 the description said "NE side" and the building was at a slight angle to north, so I headed around the right side to the ENE corner but had to come back since the control was placed midway along the NNE side. Description was fair, my bad.
From 2-3 I might have saved a few seconds if I had gone left of the main building thru a patio area instead of around it to the right, but the patio looked pretty crowded with pedestrians and from passing the building earlier I knew that there were tables there where people were eating, so I figured the longer distance was a safer tradeoff than dodging the tourists.
This was probably some sort of record for longest ratio of time spent travelling (15 hour round trip) to time spent orienteering (less than 14 minutes), but it was well worth it for the rare opportunity to run in this unique and spectacular venue.
Note: 920 mile driving day. Oxford-Niagara-Oxford. Gee, I think I did that once before!