Orienteering race 1:33:37 [4]
Flying Pig Ultra Long Championships. Not such a good day today. :( Struggled with the map trying to flail my way through all the underbrush rather than seeking routes around it. Not checking compass carefully enough. Being distracted by Ethan as he whizzed by drawing me toward him and his control--when will I ever learn? Most bummed about #9 where I had a good plan, but got stupid when I was looking for a stream fork, expecting it to be two reentrants coming together (which I eventually found, about 400 beyond the actual junction I was looking for) when the map clearly showed the two streams joined on the flat. Grrrrrrrrr.
Then, on #12, the trail under the power line detoured into the woods where I happened to hit it and it appeared that I would have been 150 further down the power line. With little faith in my ability to orienteer at that point, I crossed the power line and tried to relocate which took a bit of walking, reading, and head scratching before I located the stream's earth bank on the map and felt I had identified where I was. Too bad about the trail that threw me off.
Disappointing results.