Afternoon training on Broughton Burrows.
1. Control pick in reverse. Mostly ok but went pretty bad at around 13 (first one was 15!) - overshot pretty badly and alarm bells starting going off as nothing fitted, and had then bumped into Brendan who was going the other way and into 5. In my defence, Ben was also standing around here looking pretty lost, apparently doing the same exercise. Managed to relocate, which is some achievement. Must have been in the wrong place on another (as it had a tag in for a later exercise) but found the next site OK despite coming from wrong direction.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1011689362
19:32, 1.74km, 70m
2. Corridor exercise is rougher terrain to north. This went fairly well and stayed well in line for c.95% distance - but started to go wrong near the end when there was no positive feature to work with. Spent a little bit of time exploring interesting features off the corridor before getting back on about 100 yards later. Tough going and tiring. Took a little detour at top to link up to the coast path as Ben wouldn't let me join it up back in October.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1011689345
30:07, 2.63km, 95m
3. Windows in reverse, and the windows were not very big. Definitely easier in reverse and without good (read "any") pacing strategy had to rely on good compass and to calibrate distance estimates as I left 8 (the first control). This turned out to be remarkably successful getting 7, 6, and 5 all fine, on a good line for 4 but stopped a little early (checked map and decided was too early). Poor bearing on 3 but only one area where contours would fit. Good line to 2 but doubted and stopped way too early, carried on checking all holes and found it where it would have been if I kept straight on. 1 was the hardest to find, stuck on the bearing and aimed to start looking around for features when it looked familiar (as this was where I came to on first exercise). Stumbled upon Oscar, Clare and the tag on my line before I knew to pay attention.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1011689139
24:20, 2.58km, 60m
Collected the windows tags in after - by walking. Started feeling very faint at the far end and kept feeling like I would collapse at every step. Walk slowed to a stumble - kept going only by the thought of the orange cake waiting in the car. It's the most faint I've felt - more so than just before when I actually did faint at work last summer.
Pretty tired.