Some staggered start action going on this week at Darnaway, and was the last of the five of us. Other than a quick glance of Pedley coming the other way wasn't able to catch up. It was nice to cleanly read the map, save for a spur that I thought was gonna be a reentrant. Based on split comparison, I'm pretty happy with the day, just a smidget behind but very close at the same time. Lost time came in chunks instead of bleeding it out, which I prefer because that is going to be easier to rectify than if I was losing hella time every control (aka not that long ago).
Main things are:
Bad exit out of 2.
Misreading the spur into 4.
Route choice 7, should have stayed on the trail a bit longer and went in the flatter part along the hill not of the line, which also gives a nice little trail.
Lost a lot of time to 12. Was just a bitch about the undergrowth and I paid for it. Could have gone a lot straighter, but I'm still torn on what the right decision for the second half of the leg was.
Bad line into 14.
Navigation was quite good throughout though. Even if the decisions aren't there yet, was reading well.