1. | pretty much straight lined it to this one. | ||||||
2. | +00:20 | around to the right, crossing the road on the path. aimed off to come in north of the control but still hesitated a little here | |||||
3. | along the ridge, left of the clearing, then diagonally up the hill and across, straight from the path bend. saw some people leaving. | ||||||
4. | followed the contours around | ||||||
5. | stayed pretty high on the hill. around the left edge of both marshes (quite distinct!) almost distracted by some people riding horses through the woods. (thinking uh-oh is this a path? nope) hesitated about 10m in front of the control when I thought I should be there and didn't see it. | ||||||
6. | straight north up the reentrant. bearing from the arc-ditch/road junction. | ||||||
7. | never saw any of the black features around this control. | ||||||
8. | +00:45 | found the same patch of rocky ground as JJ after dropping too much in the last 200m. | |||||
9. | looking at this one thinking ok there must be some way I can avoid all this climb...nope. a no-brainer navigationally | ||||||
10. | spent some time at 9 trying to chew a little piece of powerbar I had saved, but it was taking too long so I spit out the rest of it. to the right towards the road, then along and through the field while some people and horses stare at me. | ||||||
11. | +01:00 | came into the last wide reentrant towards the north end and couldn't see either the path or gully-highway to the control. had difficulty positively identifying features. saw joel here (hardly a good sign) looking around about 100m short. he found the control first. | |||||
12. | +00:45 | running a little bit too fast (ooh this is an easy control) towards the road, I actually veered too far left and didn't correct and hit the road until it was perpendicular to the control. some hesistation while thinking where the heck is the road??? while approaching the control I see joel who has come from more like the straight-line direction | |||||
13. | interesting leg for a blue course. strangely no sign of joel. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:02:50