BADO Regional back on Pamber. 8.8km brown with 29 controls.
Big miss on 1 but split on 2s slower than on 1 last night - sneaky for them to put control on edge of start triangle!
Bit of a mess on 5 - the one control from last night (17 - which I messed up). Went on a bearing and found a control, only it was 6! Only about 50 yards between controls so good point for relocating.
Lost a bit of time struggling across fence by 10 - very slippery and wobbly. Took dog leg route in to 11 so led in to it by loads of people coming out. Small miss going in to 12 as missed crossing the big track as loads of people standing on crossing hiding it. Leaving 12, went along edge of high fence but the path just disappeared into bramble - not so good.
Now discussion on 12/16/20 (centre of butterfly) - lost a bit of time coming back into it from 15 and was too far west. Should have been able to head due south and hit path junction on way to 17 but was some way east - GPS has my south bearing as pretty good. Leaving 20 back to big path to east, it was much closer than I thought. Didn't put these all together at the time but in post race discussion concluded the feature is actually some way (40m?) east than mapped - GPS confirms. Yet another point feature on this map that's in the wrong place!
Spent a bit of time looking for Paul's rootstock, didn't seem quite right but did find it. Ended up bit too far west on 22 - on wrong distinct tree, that was also in rough open and bracken (mapped light green).
Tried playing it safe on common towards the end and mostly worked - taking chunks out of Mark here. Was just about in touch with map at 27 but map isn't as clear as it probably needs to be and lost 1 min looking around in the bracken with Colin Dickson. I then found it and left Colin looking in the wrong place.
Nice course and good to be forced off the paths unlike last day event here. Was feeling quite tired so didn't think my running pace was very good but still 5th of 24 or so when I left, and 2 mins or so ahead of Scott which makes a pleasant change.
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