Sol3 mark hill
We (actually Mrs Graeme - thanks) drove through 45 mins of blizzard out of the 2:30 it took to get here. No gloves or cag with me. Not even a spare buff. I was going to do a long warm up but with the sleet I had to get out of the car and run, so it was limited to 5 mins and some drills. Long warm down in the sun after.
A new area for me. The course was cool, the forest was cool, I was hopeless, for the first 2 at least, and after that I started thinking, and felt fitter and stronger than for ages. Nice, so nice. The sort of rough scottish forest that really plays to my strengths, and good technical orienteering. Perfect middle race terrain.
The mistakes were thinking the map was 1:7500 when actually it was 1:10000. I stopped way too short at 1, thinking I must have overshot, and then took a wander for a good 2:30, then another 1:30 at 2. Nick was picking apart my poor JK o-technique last night, then the next 2controls I run I make the kind of mistakes (especially the 2nd) that I really ought not to be making. Poor poor poor! Great orienteering from Solway though. 10/10.
Results:
http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...Same course as short blue.
Routegadget, so you can all have a laugh at my woeful headless chickening, is here:
http://www.solway.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#26&co...