Lakes5 Day 5 - Dale Park
The one I had been most looking forward to.
Early start was never going to make things easy but just went pout to enjoy it. #1 was straight forwards but difficult to spot in the bracken which I was already making my own tracks through. A good to #5 bar #4 where I was off line a little to the right.
First half of #6 was fine with the plan of being left of straight to avoid multiple crags but just hadn't planned/simplified the second half of the leg and so end up very hesitant and pin-balled around and into the control. This was a wake up and navigated smoothly through to #13 bar hesitation at #12 hunting for the boulder in the bracken (map is wrong). Errors crept in from here:
#14 too far left and went to the lower knoll first ~20s
#15 Poor bearing from the hill dropping too far right ~45s
#17 No proper plan and drifted and then stopped confused around half way through the leg before sorting myself out ~1min
#20 caught Jonathan Rhys looking confused, I then got confused and drifted too far right. ~25s
#21 Started running striaght then realised the path route would be much quicker ~5s.
Won M21L by a ~4mins but was a few seconds behind Nick B (40s had same course). Nice end to the week with the exception of the weather.
Also big up for the string course - that was some advanture, which Grace loved!
http://www.mdoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#292&course=...