orienteering 2:45:37 [3] 8.9 km (18:37 / km) +285m 16:02 / km
Blue course at Star Village. Very slow hike around South Mountain. It was a good course for this time of year - lots of long trail/road runs with short breaks through the woods to connect trails or get controls. Normally I don't like that kind of course but it was exactly what I wanted today - it really felt like a mini-rogaine albeit with the control sequence fixed. Happy to finish the course in the time limit given that I didn't run a single step.
A few small errors - wasn't on the right trail to #1 for about 15 sec, didn't read the clearings correctly on #6 for another 15 sec, a little left on #7 for about 15 sec and way right on #15 for maybe a minute. I suppose there were slightly better routes a few times but nothing major. I did have to stop and use my magnifier quite a bit to sort out what was rock, what was trail, what was stone wall, power line, etc. Map printing was good but not great and the map is busy enough and my eyesight is going downhill fast enough that I needed to stop, squint and move the magnifier around to sort it out a few times.
Knees painful but at least no cramping like at the BG.
Note
Dennis and Emily came and did an Orange course. They live close by and I offered to take them to lunch afterwards, but they said they really enjoyed themselves and would definitely do it again some time. Maybe HR in August.