Training Log Archive: schnitzer

Bigland. Found number 1 fine but then decided that 21 came next. Found it perfectly but no flag. Spent some time searching the other hill tops close by and eventually realised my mistake and ran off, having no idea where I was in what thought was the direction of number 2. With the help of Jon and Rich found number 2 and then carried on well with only one minor miss on 5 (control descriptions required) and cracked my shin on a rock near 7 which hurt like fuck. Spent ages looking for 9 staying too close to the fence and failing to navigate by the re-entrants. Rich helped me again and we ran together from 9 to 13, him leading into 10/11 and me into 12/13. I was happy with this situation knowing that one of my weaknesses was running with others but Rich had other ideas and gave me a minute head start to 14. I thought I'd navigated perfectly to 14 but ended up having to go well South West to find the flag. Completely undershot 15 and eventually Rich passed me again into it at which point I stopped planning and just ran in the general direction of 16 missing it big style. Went very safe to 17 taking in 13 and 7 again on the way to be totally sure. Only a very small miss on 20, one contour too low and then verified my thoughts from earlier that there was indeed no flag on the hill top at 21. It's hard to be happy with this overall but forgetting the 1-21-2 situation my only real probs were 9 and 16 where I just didn't have enuff of a plan. Misses at 14 and 15 simply weren't my fault...

Bigland, collecting controls 14-16. Navigated to 13 first to ensure an accurate reconstruction of my route into 14 from earlier. Used exactly the same attack points: big crag, small crag, ferny reentrant, hill top and then ran between the two small crag into the reentrant - no flag. Spent a long time trying to find it (God knows how I fluked it b4) going around in circles checking all the reentrants. Eventually found it about 60m SWW of the correct feature which explains me undershooting 15. Ran 15-16 with a plan this time joining up the various hill top/crag/reentrant attack points along the way - perfect. Back thru 12 and 11 (already collected).

Summer House Knott. Line then controls 1-10 then line again then 11-13. Slight wobbles on 3 and 4 in the crappy part of the wood. Unsure whether it was workings or windblow. Feeling a bit all over the place on the second line and lost it. Slow jogged/walked the rest.