Orienteering 1:22:15 [5] 10.81 km (7:37 / km) +60m 7:24 / km
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon 212
Ainsdale Dunes, Short Brown
rain, which limited ability to read the map, a lot of simplification , loved the area, despite the rain and the surprisingly tough going, which was hard to predict (sometimes the flat areas were good, sometimes not), a long course which tested my fitness and found it wanting
#8 narrow miss right, problem with attack angle from thicket, checked a depression to the west [60]
#9 hesitant - hoping there was a path this side of the fence, found some grot [30]
#11 off-line right, found unmarked thicket (looking for thicket), mistook fences [180]
#14 missed fractionally left, position of pit didn't seem right to me [30]
#15 aimed off [20]
#18 tried to line up with open area, didn't work, was shocked by massive re-entrant, took awhile to locate [60]
#19 attacked too soon, slow and messy into control [60]
#26 took on the dune but came off below control (couldn't read map), around a better route [40]
16th, 21mins behind Alisdair Pedley, 12m behind Andy thorpe