NSW State League race 1:10:21 [5] 5.7 km (12:21 / km)
QB3 - LONG at Belanglo SF
Started early to allow time to get around and changed so as to babysit LeepBax so it was still a bit foggy and the forest damp and cool.
Had not seen any starters so was confused when picking up my map that it wanted me to cross the road and go into the southern part rather than just turn to my right and head into the immediatly adjacent forest. After convincing myself that that was right I decided that this control was going to need a lot of care and some fairly good bearing running. Ha Ha there it is right where I had hoped.
Was failry lonely out in the forest (but quite nice as well) as my early start meant I only saw two people the whole time I was out there, the first one giving me quite a start as I never exoected to see anybody at all. This meant I neaither recieved any assistance nor hinderance.
After nearly 20 minutes I thought I could do the lot in another 20 minutes but I soon tired and the forest soon became less friendly especially around the rocks. Still it wasn't so bad, could always get through, just made it a tad tiring for those less fit like myself.
Probably made two sub-two minute errors so was fairly happy but my time slipped out to a whopping 70 minutes. Still that put me into 5th which indicated many others certainly had a lot more trouble than I did.
Got to be fairly happy with this run.