Camping Weekend Blue 2
Longer today! 9.2k. Legs actually felt ok to start, then was getting more and more tired towards the end, less happy to jump over and around stuff.
Today’s run was less clean, a few times 50m-100m off from the control, without really knowing it, felt like I only really spiked a third of them. Sometimes they were just difficult legs (Big Island) but sometimes I think I might not have quite been reading enough features into the control. It’s good to simplify to move quickly on the way there, but think it’s better to try to read a bit more heading right into the control.
1- Fine, came off road in a good place, popped over the hilltop.
2- Blah, blah. First I didn’t see the indistinct little trail more or less right under the line, so didn’t attempt that route, then bent too far to the right, but ended up on the hill top, ran along it til I thought I was in the saddle, back on the line, then was on a bearing down the hill side, ended up a bit left and couldn’t figure out what was going on forawhile, finally did.
3- Told myself I learnt I had to stay in *perfect* contact from last control, and think I did until right near it went I bent up too high right before stream crossing then was looking for the control just too high, eventually figured it out.
4- Easier, over hill top, down to marsh, hill-reentrant-hill, control!
5- Bearing east, cross on old beaver dam, easy to control, drank water.
6- Back out to trail, straight W when it T’ed into slot reentrant, up around to marsh, over hill and in.
7 - Long leg, route choice. Initially decided straight, but then decided I had enough picking my feet up and worrying about where I was going and the trail looked fast, so sped out to trail and along it, but missed attack by a bit from the little trail right near the control, poor sense of distance on the little trail, could have also used features besides the trail bend.
8- On a bearing, check off hill, but had wrong one- thought I was on line, was slightly to right, figured it out after a brief pause.
9- Long leg again, I went with left beaver dam and more of a trail leg. Would be interesting to know if the beaver dam to the right is faster or no... Did totally spike the control, following up N from two boulders- depression, hilltop!
10- Ok pretty much all the way in, but wanted to head a bit right from the hill
11- Used a bit of the trail on the way, had to tie shoes on the way, then bobble towards circle, too much just west from the nearby pond.
12- West gap between ponds, read everything well on the way in.
13- Reentrant going up, going down, past bright yellow marsh, almost didn’t see control behind a tree.
14- About 20m right, had to detour to boulder.
15- Eep scary, came into woods early because of marshiness, was pretty thick, ended up caught by linear marsh.
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152/2000