Kong mini mountain marathon 2019 #1 Capel Curig
Looking forward to this as we did OK in the last round at Hathersage.
Fairly cold but dry. the start was just down from Plas Y Brenin.
Henry got map and darted off towards #1. Biggest mistake of the day was me stopping him and deciding to get the easy ones first down the long drag path to the east.. As soon as we headed off piste the snow got deeper with every step. They'd already removed a big chunk off controls in the North end.
Energy sapping not just on the climbs. The downhills were still knee deep snow so couldn't even run those.
One control in the wrong place. Face of waterfall? was no waterfall there. Need to get wiser when the controls are wrongly placed instead of thinking it will magically appear just think whoever it was that put the control there thinks it is. We came in from the wrong direction.
In any case we had no time left so could only get a couple more on the big slab at the side of Tryfan. Snow not so bad on that side but a big climb to grab 3 more controls was not doable. We'd have been 30 minutes late. Henry had no energy anyway.
Gutted to have to take the same way back and go past controls we already punched.
61st/151 Good day out nonetheless. Reckon on top 20-30 if We'd gone the other way.. But we didn't.