Orienteering

I ran my first orienteering course yesterday with a guy from work. I finished the 1.7km loop in 27:53, which I thought was awful but was actually comparable to the others in the 'newbie' category. It was promising to see that an experienced competitor takes between 1.5 and 3 minutes between stations, and I took between 2 and 2.5 minutes between 4 of the 6 stations. Too bad I took 6 minutes to find the first one, and spent over 14 minutes lost in the woods trying to find the 3rd one.

The next event is next week, so we'll see if I learned anything yesterday.