Orienteering (Orange Course) 47:12 [2] 4.2 km (11:14 / km)
slept:7.5
I shadowed Max on the Orange course at the Surebridge Mtn. local meet. We ran pretty easy since he is not very good at Orienteering yet. It was a good experience running him through the process of figuring out a leg. I learned a lot by spelling out the whole process to him.
Orienteering (Red Course) 1:02:17 [4] 6.3 mi (9:53 / mi) +235m 8:52 / mi
spiked:9/10c slept:7.5
After shadowing Max on the Orange course, I ran the Red with Max shadowing me. It turned out he was too tired to stick me, so he ended up dropping out halfway through the course. I had to wait for him on a few controls, so I decided that it wasn't a good idea and he was just holding me back.
Since I was running fairly slow with Max tagging along, I had the opportunity to be very exact in my Orienteering. After Max dropped out, I picked up the pace a little, but since there was so much climb, I still managed to really read the map well. I had very good concentration, and hit almost all of the controls dead on. On number 8, I hit what I thought was the right feature, but there was no control. I relocated by running to the top of the hill and attacking it from a different angle. I hit the same feature, and after deciding that it wasn't there, I noticed it hung behind a bolder just up the hill. I am still not sure if it was hung wrong or not since nobody else noticed a problem, but I even after looking back over my mistake I still can't see what I did wrong.
Besides that one mistake, the only thing that slowed me down was the immense climb. Each control seemed to have a hill to climb. It must have been uphill both ways ;) I noticed I was fairly tired from running the Orange course, and I think I could have run it 4-5 minutes faster had I been fresh. Also, with the 2 minutes I lost on number 8, I was about 6 minutes slower than I could have been.