SL: 11.1km Winner: Crickmore/Robinson 1:12:06 (138.5%) (Nightmare. As I was in the box Charli came back to the start saying there were 'lots of people out there looking like they didn't know what they were doing', and I soon joined them. Reckon I lost at least 10minutes, and that's not including the smaller mistakes and hesitancies.
1 - Started off badly with a mahoosive parallel error (felt like 2min+, act. only 1.5)
8 - for night this was a poor route, but managed to hit my AP (bush). Then fluffed it big time. Somehow found it again, but still dicked about before working it out. 3min
10 - again a v poor RC. Got out to the road to relocate. 2min
11 - no plan once over the road. Relocated off the fence corner. 1.5min
16 - poor direction out of 15 and couldn't tell which smaller path was which. Sorted it out though. 1min.
20 - really poor direction out of 19. Stuck in a lot of crap. 1min
29- picked a pathy route, went in too early, came back out, went on too far. Relocated a way off. Caught by Mal and Crickmore (3.5min)
Much better into the finish with the guys. They got away a bit, but I managed to finish with them - see, I can nav at night at times!
In general, direction out of controls was pretty poor. I didn't adapt my technique to night well enough - I'm quite a heads-up orienteer so night is never going to be a strength, but this was pretty bad.
Pretty down after this (bang goes my <130% aim...), but a Chow Mein, lemonade then 2 pints of Farmers Blonde sorted me out.