Guessing distance and climb as managed to leave the phone in the hall after the event and had not taken a look yet.
SLOW MTBO 3 hours from Thursley map had hindhead high ground in Sw corner and flatter ground to the north as far as hankley common. 10 20 30 and new this season 40 pointers as well. Raining before the off but easing off but it was clearly going to be muddy.
3 40's in 3 further corners and lots of 10 pointers in the middle type area with bigger points around the outside. set off anti-clockwise looking to do an outer loop ignoring the centeral section. Doing the flatter terain first and seting up for a downhill finish.
Headed for close 18 but very not into the map straight off and I was never close to it and confused. when I worked it out I just carried on for 21 probably lost a couple of mins faffing. 31, 20, past the carpark where I spent the night for 10 out and back for 30. 22 seamed further than expected and took alternate rouite out for more road back aroiund to 40. I had failed to start the timmer in IpBike and started it just after 4 at about the 1 hour mark. 24, 33, 34 but it failed to register. checking at the finish the gps track was very off here had me crossing over to the other side of the valley and back. Just carried on at the time for 36, 25.missed turn heading for 26 and needed to read contours to relocate and double back. It was a lot closer to the big tranck than expected where I needed to turn and I carried on a bit far before turning back 2 mins. 41 37, got the BW initally where it's aukward buit ended up off it cone the first vally but got back OK. 27 and a slog up to the underpass by A3. Took a stop to try and re-assess still over half an hour to go so up down and some pushes up and down for 38 and on to the desission point for going back down for 42. less than 20 mins left here and decided to not do the out and back for 42 but try and get all the none straight back 40 points avalible on the route back so 29, 35 and then climb back to 19 and home. Was a bit frustrating heading for home as clearly a few mins late and I had to go slow on the road decent a few times as 7 horses to pass.
2nd by 1 point.
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