BIRTHDAY RACE! WOOOOOOOO!
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Silton Forest- Blue
Super super tough-going as race was in a recently deforested area--this and brambles made forests nearly impossible to run through, or super super snaggy if so. Messed up the 1st control a TON, but after that only made few little errors here and there, managed to stay in contact with the map quite well! Was great weather, a fun but tough race on a wonderful day! Áine and Adam surprised me with a a fantastic chocolate cake afterwards--there is definitely no way I would rather spend my birthday!
http://www.clok.org.uk/events2016/160515_Silton_bl...^^^As can be seen on the link above...I got SOOOOOOOOOO disorientated on the first leg ahahah, the forest was so crappy that I couldn't see the knoll I was going to veer off from [Attempted to navigate to one like this person did:
http://www.clok.routegadget.co.uk/gadget/rg2/#114&...] and so later went into the forest blind, made a really really big parallel error and then just stood around on a path junction for like 5 mins trying to figure out where the heck I was on the map. The rest of the way I played the other routes quite safely and mainly stuck to paths--which was pretty much all you could feasibly do in this area.