Orienteering race (DNC2 - Cheyne Hill) 1:27:00 [4]
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 300 Gr/Bl
Grim. Many expletives.
Don't know if its partly an age thing, but its certainly partly a colour thing. The combination of the vegetation (heather and bracken, and areas of scattered trees), and the colours on the map at night, especially around 1 which were completely unreadable for me, made the first four a total disaster. Climbing down and then up the slope between 3 and 4 seriously wondered why I was doing this, and for fun. Very close to packing it in when I couldn't find the earthbank or the boulders in the bracken at 4. It maybe didn't help that I was pretty much out first.
Things got marginally better in the wood but I was long lacking in any concentration and motivation by then.