Green course at Cole Hill in East Berne, 5 km SL. Temps in the mid to upper 50s with threats of showers but not really much action until we were done and about to leave.
Silly error to 2 where I should've known I hadn't gone far enough (to hit the stone wall!) and turned right instead of left when the hill started to drop off.... (I "lost" the race there, as 1st place was less than a minute ahead of me.) Good though slow to 2 (uphill), fine to 3, and then tentative to four as I wasn't sure of trails, or which stonewall I was on, but it worked out. Out to road and off stonewall corner to 5 where it wasn't obvious what was mapped as a thicket; then I angled across the road and followed another stonewall toward the marshy area intending to head south to bit the big trail to cross at a bridge. But I must have been angling more SW than I thought because it took much longer than I expected to hit the trail, having found an unmapped stone wall and losing confidence. I did eventually find the trail I wanted, but I'm sure if I had just gone up the road to the trail jct and down from there I would have been minutes faster. Good from there on in, choosing near the end to cut straight across some iffy light green rather than run way around on the trail...in the end I took about the same time as Janet F who ran the trail (and is a faster runner). Sluggish on the uphill run in.
I wish hills were my friends....
Map with route