JK Long.
In hindsight, I had no real plan going into this. Just took it as it came really. Concerns about my leg were there, it survived, nothing more.
First 6 were all steady, compass good, caught Jack Wood at 4. Went straight on 7, the forest was not white. Avoided the road and clean to 10. Executed leg 11 well but lost a lot of time by going straight it seems. And then totally fucked the easiest leg on the course, nearly 2 mins on 12 - argh! Ended up in the OOB...
Had to stop and tie my lace on the way to 14, and was a bit hesitant with the map passing 3. Clean through to the road crossing now. Gel went in.
Aaaaan meltdown. Didn't see the start triangle ont he new map, assumed we were at control 20 despite alarm bells ringing, and headed straight into a jungle on rhododendron. Whilst being consumed by this arboreal hellhole, I questioned my life choices and also whyt he compass was not pointing the way I expected. The penny dropped, and I consulted the map more closely. You arse.
2 mins blown there needlessly, and then didn't trust myself heading to 22, overshooting, failing to read the map and finally Jamie caught me.
Angry now, took the lead through to spectator, steady enough on the controls. Jamie killed me over the fields, building a gap going into 30.
Took my own route now, this was the last interesting leg really. Jamie was off left about halfway, then he vanished. I pushed on as best as I could muster but knew I was ahead so tried to stay clean and claw back some time. Splits were pretty good until I inexplicably lost a minute on 38 - tiredness?
V tired at the end, the relentless fast running did me good and proper. Horses for courses I guess.
Too much time lost on avoidable errors - well capable of a top 10 run, but need to start cutting out the silly mistakes. I've decided to hire SI-Air at the British so I can't keep using that excuse for lost positions.
http://www.jk.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#69&course=1&r...
http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...