orienteering race 19:59 [5] 1.9 km (10:31 / km) +33m 9:41 / km
shoes: Inov8 O-roc 280 Red Threedux
QOC Patapsco CCBC (Mid-Atlantic Championships) - Relay Leg 1
Little campus sprint relay which was so fun. Not enough SVO people to make a team, I ended up on a mixed team with Patty C and Kathy M (who had arrived late and was still in the woods on her first course when the relay started.)
Somehow I got the shortest leg which was actually ok because I was pretty dead from the first race. We were a 9 point team so started first. I was keeping ahead of a decent number of people until I made an error at 5, same as a lot of people. I was about to go into the patio thing, then saw outside corner on the description and thought aha, a trick. Unfortunately, the first part of the description was paved area and not wall, and the control actually WAS inside the patio area. I got stuck outside the wall and could see it, but had to go back around to get in. (Apparently, from what I heard, a lot of people broke sprint rules and climbed over the wall on later legs.)
That error allowed Janet T to get ahead of me and I spent the rest of the time trying to reel her in. I lost a tiny amount of time at 6 by going on the upper level and slightly past the stairs instead of just around the side of the building. The rest of it was fine and I finally started catching her in the open and powered by on the last hill before the finish.