Finally some woods orienteering! Well kind of, more open grassland, but still. This was probably the most physically demanding orienteering course I have done in a long while, the only thing that I can compare to in terms of physical exhaustion is my first Billygoat. 800 meters of climb on a 7.7km (straight line) course, oof. So while it was absolutely brutal to run it was still fun. It was also a mass start which is always good fun. This also let me run with two boys around my age. They really forced me to keep running the whole thing which was helpful and probably cut about 10 minutes off my time.
The course navigationally was not the cleanest, especially given the ease of most of the navigation. With that being said most of my mistakes were just small missed turns or the like, about 30 seconds each. My biggest real mistake was just bad route choices on some of the longer legs, particularly 28-29 (lost about 2 minutes to the winners who went around). The long legs though were super challenging trying to find the best route so not that upset.
Also, this green was super thick, even a small amount was basically an uncrossable barrier, hence some of the weird entries into controls.
Results here -
https://www.elo.org.uk/latest-results/index_event3...My routes below