Orienteering 20:04 [3]
shoes: Inov8 Roclite 285
Did not have a good race as I had started to suffer from really bad dehydration. Raced anyway because I would have felt terrible had I missed it. Just don't particularly like people then asking "what happened?"
1) Tried to approach it from the south side. Turned out that you couldn't so had to go around. 10 seconds.
2) Went down the wrong path to the north and realised late. 1 minute
3) Not sure which is faster, but I assume coming from the bottom (I went in from the top)
6) Went along the walkway which was not as fast as going straight up. (25 seconds). Also tried to go in too early, so was messing around a bit before I saw the path (made by everyone else). (10 seconds)
7) Found a rather impregnable plant, had to go around to get through (5 seconds)
8) Bit of trouble getting to the exact ditch, tried to stick to the fence and go down but the vegetation was quite thick here. 5 seconds
12) Ended up going from the top instead of from the bottom, silly extra distance. 10 seconds
14) Could have gone to the north up the area with the scattered trees. Lost around 20 seconds going south.
16) Went to the tea garden instead of the other building because of a stupid exit angle. Lost about 1 minute.
18) Could have gone down the scattered trees and then into the clearing and onto the path just to the west of 18. Could have saved 5-10 seconds. Just couldn't read the vegetation anywhere on the map.
19) Should have gone high I think, cutting through the vegetation.
21) Started to go down after exiting 20. Lost 5 seconds
Lost around 3 and a half minutes.