NAOC Brown M 65 Sprint at PEEC. Straight line distance 1.9K. This was a very good race for me. Beautiful weather, reading the map well. Mostly going around to stay on trails where possible, except for #10 where I went more or less straight through the woods. Now that I look at the GPS track, not so straight. Going from 7 to 8 I thought about crossing the narrow marsh, and saw a couple of guys going ahead of me. One of them might have been Carl Underwood. They zipped right across, didn't even get wet shoelaces. I followed with enthusiasm and my first step went in all the way to mid-thigh, stumbled and went all the way in. Spent a bit of time trying to clear the mud off my map after that. In good contact all the way. That's just as fast as I can go and read the map, so a ways back from PG. 6th on Brown, I think, which is a pretty good result for me in this fast company.
Map
I think I lost time a few places. I was slow on the first two controls, just getting into the map. I think that was a good investment. Lost about 10 seconds with my tumble into the marsh between 7 and 8, with maybe a little holdover on the way to 9 cleaning my map. Lost probably 20 seconds with my wobbly route through the woods to 10. Then maybe another 10 on the way to 14 when I stopped at the top of the cliff, then climbed down, instead of jumping, as I heard PG and Rick W had done.