Run race 1:00:08 [4]
shoes: RocLite315-2
Swynnerton old park - green
oh dear! lost 4 mins on the first easy control which cost me 1st place - dithered at the start kite as the area was full of paths and fences then measured distance to track jn where I would start looking at the terrain, however there were unmapped paths and I became confused and converted my pacing from the track jn to the veg bdy near my control so I started looking too early. Then my final route in was affected by the undergrowth i had seen at the place i pulled up early and assumed it would be the same at my control, but in reality there was a elephant track which I avoided. No 2 rootstock in clearing on steep slope with lots of bracken, I found an unmapped earlier one with an elephant track going to it but decided to traverse to where I thought the real one would be , which involved a bit of involuntary lying down, another 2 mins lost!. Things improved after that but there were plenty more little errors. Major bad route choice to final control - decided to go thru instead of round on tracks, even though it was close to the runin track - lost another 4 mins at least!