Orienteering race 1:19:27 [4] *** 8.5 km (9:21 / km) +210m 8:19 / km
Day 1 at Peaceful Valley; Red course. My plan for today was to not waste any time at the controls, since there were 18 of them. I wanted to see the control and as I was running to it, get my compass set for the next leg and start getting my plan ready. It worked pretty well. It was also good that I hit each control pretty cleanly, with just maybe a minute of total hesitations. I started out fairly quickly, but by the last third of the course, I could feel that I wasn't charging quite as hard. I think it was a combo of the heat and the sometimes mentally-challenging aspect of getting across those huge prairies. But overall, a good day.
