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Saturday Dec 3, 2016 #
Orienteering - Forest (Knockalls) 53:14 [3] 6.6 km (8:04 / km) +260m 6:44 / km
EDIT:4th/40. Some amazing split times by Pete Ward; 3 or 4 legs where he's 30s ahead of the entire field!
http://www.ngoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#91&cour...
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Eventually found the event.
No trouble with 1-6.very lucky on 7, no real AP and got stuck in the green, but it was visible from a long way away.I deserve to have lost time, though.
60s on 10, good line but no confidence and had to relocate from large depression.
13 another lucky one, missed the ruin, the wall and the clearing, but control was hung really high; thanks ngoc!
2mins lost on 14 frustratingly, tried to go straight rather than sensibly following the path, expected the feature to be bigger than it was - in fact I never actually find the ditch, but I did see the knoll to the N and the platform to the S whilst missing the control in between...
16 was a good route choice leg.normally I automatically go round on this sort of leg but it's been slower the last few times so elected for straight; not convinced at all it was better so looking forward to seeing splits.
One last bad route choice on the last control; up and down is 5 contours but I went down and up which was 7.the straighter indistinct path which I ignored for some reason is only 3 so I'm not sure what I was doing tbh.
About 3 mins behind Rich P so it would've been interestingly close if I hadn't made any mistakes.
http://www.ngoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#91&cour...
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Eventually found the event.
No trouble with 1-6.very lucky on 7, no real AP and got stuck in the green, but it was visible from a long way away.I deserve to have lost time, though.
60s on 10, good line but no confidence and had to relocate from large depression.
13 another lucky one, missed the ruin, the wall and the clearing, but control was hung really high; thanks ngoc!
2mins lost on 14 frustratingly, tried to go straight rather than sensibly following the path, expected the feature to be bigger than it was - in fact I never actually find the ditch, but I did see the knoll to the N and the platform to the S whilst missing the control in between...
16 was a good route choice leg.normally I automatically go round on this sort of leg but it's been slower the last few times so elected for straight; not convinced at all it was better so looking forward to seeing splits.
One last bad route choice on the last control; up and down is 5 contours but I went down and up which was 7.the straighter indistinct path which I ignored for some reason is only 3 so I'm not sure what I was doing tbh.
About 3 mins behind Rich P so it would've been interestingly close if I hadn't made any mistakes.
Running - Trail race (Gwent XC Blaise) 39:18 [5] 9.61 km (4:05 / km) +174m 3:45 / km
shoes: X-Talon 190 (blue)
12 seconds faster than last year despite the orienteering beforehand, so quite pleased!
Pretty dry conditions, definitely the right choice not to go with spikes.
Caught Paul Jefferson with a few hundred metres to go and overtook, but he clearly wanted it more than me and finished a couple of seconds ahead. Still managing to maintain 100% XC victories over Daryl.
130th place, which is worse than last year and the year before, despite being quicker. High standard field!
Pretty dry conditions, definitely the right choice not to go with spikes.
Caught Paul Jefferson with a few hundred metres to go and overtook, but he clearly wanted it more than me and finished a couple of seconds ahead. Still managing to maintain 100% XC victories over Daryl.
130th place, which is worse than last year and the year before, despite being quicker. High standard field!