Orienteering (Foot) 1:15:06 [3] 5.7 km (13:11 / km) +246m 10:50 / km
spiked:5/8c slept:7.0 weight:201lbs (injured)
SVO: Oregon Ridge. Having felt better over the last week I gave the Green course a try. It was a +80 F day but that didn't bother me much. I wore shorts and gaitors. Mostly I was feeling out of shape, and injured. Going slowly, I thought I could be clean but I wasn't. Going slowly across the flatter areas of the Oregon Ridge plateau, it was easier to drift.
S-1 - I ran around on the grass to the left. I figured I'd cut through near or between the buildings but fencing seemed to block that off. I cut back on the road briefly to go around the playground, but my few steps on the road was where I re-hurt my left calf. I thought about stopping soon after that, to prevent worse injury from ensuing as it's happened a few times over the last winter. I kept going but needed to walk up hills. The left side of my lower back, as well as the left calf, hurt. Even that was hurting me (eventually it got a little better). Coming up through the reentrant, I saw the control from far away. I've never been able to identify the distinct tree that is mapped near this depression.
1-2 - I went straight but did drift left a bit. Nearing the last big reentrant before the control, I realized that I was left so I corrected and spiked the control on a curving climb.
2-3 - I contoured to the right but cut left on top. I left from a trail intersection. I was a little low near the control but corrected after seeing it 70 m away.
3-4 - I went straight but I was not recognizing the contours that well; maybe I should have used the trails a little. I started to think I was seeing a reentrant I wanted so I cut to cross it. I ended up on a broad spur. Coincidentally, there was a large rootstock at about the right height above the reentrant, and with a trunk pointed in the right direction. Finding it to be the wrong one, I tried to contour over but wasn't careful about how far I'd gotten. To be safe and quicker, I dropped to the trail, then came up.
4-5 - I started out bearing left of straight so I wouldn't have to cross the larger parts of 2 reentrants. Walking, I got further left than intended. I hit a trail-ride intersection. I got across the upper portion of the last reentrant confident of my bearing. I could see a fence corner to the left, and the house behind it. Looking down the reentrant, and lining up with the fence, I was in the right area but didn't see the control. I ran down it a little and still didn't see it. I looped back up, then down again, and finally saw it. I felt that the control was on a dot knoll, but probably on the lower of the 2 in the area, not the higher one where the control is shown on the map. I didn't stay long to be 100% sure of that, but I should have spiked it when I saw the fence corner initially.
5-6 - I went straight. Crossing a small dry dam confused me but later, Tom Nolan reminded me of the intermittent trails that I didn't see. I concluded that the small dam must have been where the trail crossed the reentrant. Getting through the mapped deadfall was really easier than I had thought it'd be. The logging that was done was selected rather than clear cut. I was able to get around the patchy branches that were left over pretty well. Coming over the last ridge, I realized I was off to the left a little. At the end, I curved up to the right slightly to get there.
6-7 - I went straight mostly. When I crossed the first trail, it wasn't bending in the direction expected so I kept straight though the scattered deadfall. Where it was flatter and past the second trail, I could run. I wasn't focusing on the pipeline ride and trail but I might have saved some time using them.
7-8 - I ran left of the trail initially. At one point I crossed a trail thinking it was the intermittent trail, but I wasn't entirely sure. It seemed too well worn. I went on my bearing partly because of not being sure. I got onto the next very briefly through to a bend, then went on bearing again. Reading the reentrants to my right and seeing the lake ahead, I thought I was good but I passed the control and hit the trail along the rim of the drop-off. I cut left a short way, the found the trail uphill a little on my left.
8-F - I jogged along the rim trail to the grasses (while avoiding tripping on the roots. I took the diagonal road and passed one guy before the end. I couldn't tell if the control on the tree where I stopped was the finish, or the shelter--it was the shelter. I think my official time was 1:22:?? but my watch had the right time--perhaps someone didn't do the math correctly.