Good Race.
I had some nerves coming into this during the journey up, but was pretty cool during the warm-up and in the start boxes. Had worked out where I was and the general buildings around me and hence what the first controls would be like - tricky!
Started happy, nailed no.1, and good route. Struggled to plan ahead early but got the first 3 well, to 4 I didn't read it well enough and missed to go inside the lower wall, but realised and lost less than 10secs. But, in return, I got the route to 5 right, and looked a little in front. Was fine through the easy ones apart from misreading the crossable wall at 7 as a path and having to go around, but losing less than 10secs again. To 10, I thought I'd spotted the shortest way but was fooled by the uncrossables, and had to detour back around the buildings, another less than 10secs miss. I saw the majority of the best route to 11 too, and was lucky enough to have people run through the path around the building to help me more. Sped up for the easy ones before the spectator and was in good shape at this point. Knew I'd had a couple but not enough to lose big time.
I tried to keep up a fast pace here too, and should maybe have planned a little too, but hesitantly spiked 17. Fine through this whole next section really, wrong side of a crossable wall on 18, and didn't take time to read it, but it wasn't enough to matter. Enjoyed my routes to 21 and 23 also, regret going around to 24, but little lost. Another 10sec-ish mistake on 26 again, not taking the time to check if a wall was crossable but not too bothered.
A good sprint, ran solidly, not overly fast, but well enough, and kept reading the detail. Passed a fair few while out there and came back first finisher, nice to have a lead! Gonna' put this one down to the 200s..
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