So here is yesterday's
route, the QuickRoute version.
I adjusted the color scale to a range of 6 to 14 min/km, and then it's actually quite interesting, because it gives me a pretty good view on how much walking I was doing. Basically anything from yellow to red is walking. And it seems like quite a lot.
A few notes --
2. I think my route was fine, especially taking it from above. No doubt at all where I was, until I got within 30 meters of it, standing on what seemed like a rock face, no control. The control was down one feature, what I was on was rocky ground.
3. So easy, if you read the map and take a look at your compass, but people missed it.
4. Too low at the end. Knew it, but took a while to adjust.
5. No good route, I think just going through the green was as good as anything else. It was downhill but I was moving slowly, just shorts and a t-shirt, didn't want to trash myself too badly.
8. While I was in complete control approaching the pit, I'd forgotten to remember which way I wanted to leave, so that part was quite sloppy.
9. Ran right by it, stopped maybe 30 meters later. I knew it was supposed to be on the NE side of the boulder. I could see the NE side of any possible boulder, and no control. Stood there for a while trying to figure it out, when another runner appeared at the boulder I'd passed, and there it was, in sight all the time. My eyes are not getting better.
10. The one really depressing leg, at least as far as how I did it. I used to be able to do this stuff easily. Plan was simple, left edge of the knoll, then NNE to the spur, then the rest should be obvious. But the contours just seemed off, and I wasn't sure, so I stopped, and moved a little, and stopped, and moved a little, and again and again and again. And eventually nailed the control, but just so incredible slow. Are my map reading skills disappearing too?
One unforeseen consequence -- or perhaps just a coincidence -- of wearing just shorts and a t-shirt (and no gaiters) was that I don't think I fell down once. A reason might be that I was trying to avoid any low vegetation to avoid getting scratched up, which meant I was generally going where I could see the footing better, or going slower and more carefully when I couldn't. The only time I fell all weekend was on the sprint, running across a bit of bare rock, went to look at my map and went splat. That had nothing to do with wearing shorts.
So while my legs are a little scratched today, general soreness is a good bit less than expected.