Orienteering race 47:00 [5]
ahr:179 max:187
Thomass Palgrave.
I decided to use the Race snowshoes, despite yesterday's massive melt, as I hoped to be breaking trail after the box.
I was second to the first control in the box, met Bash, Rocky and Crash at 1, then I basically had the privilege of breaking trail until the finish. Thanks to the crafty Eugenius, it was a toss-up whether to run fast on the hard-packed trails or break trail straight to the controls. Also not obvious which controls to drop in box 1. I probably should have taken the direct route to G rather than run around, but it all worked out OK.
Wow, 2 consecutive Thomass overall wins- somebody pinch me! The icing on the cake was seeing Bash and Crash sprinting in for 3rd and 4th, with Bash's cunning 1-snowshoe strategy paying off.
The handicap seemed to work out all right with a mix of 2,4,3,1 and 0 in the top 8.