JK2014 Sprint Swansea University.
M40 old git category.
After working in Pyle yesterday.(about 20 miles from Swansea). A bit pissed off to have to drive home just to drive back again with Henry. Traffic was shit on the approach to Swansea but arrived in good time.
Looking forward to this and liked the look of the map in the countdown pens. (Not too complex for my slow tiny brain).
Steady to 1 going round the side, the long way, but kept composure. Time to plan a bit and get used to the scale on the way to 2. Intricate path network to 3 but ok. 4 was fine. going ok. Overshot 5 and got the features a bit mixed up losing maybe 10 secs. 6 - 12 were quite easy, overly so. Is this what they call scrappy planning. 14 was ok, visualised the whole area, spotted the target and it was there.
15? epic fail. Did the old, 'there's a control, it must be that one' trick. Was so far off took a while to relocate. eventually headed for that path that just stops. Lost 3-4 minutes on this one control and ruined the whole run. 16-18 were ok if taken slowly but then I knocked a kid over going to 19. He eventually got up and said he was ok but shook me up a bit so walked a while to 19 losing another minute.
Disappointing. I like sprint O but why does it have to be just a 20 minute blast. Even a 45 minute course would have been worth the journey.
39th/54 piss poor. Without that 5 minutes lost I'd have been around 15th which I'd have been happy with.