Orienteering race 1:42:34 [3]
BADO Blackwood event. What a day. Pissing down with rain from 8 o'clock & not due to end until 10pm. Parked over 1 km away from Registration so soaked before we even began. Too far north on first control, eventually relocated and saw others going in to it. Just could not find number 6 at all! Tricky area with loads of extra mountain bike tracks. Found a control on a clearing, but thought it was a different one. Faffed around for ages and then came south & tried again. Then found another control on a rootstock, but again relocated from wrong one. Just could not read the fine detail on the map as I had to go without my glasses. After half an hour I gave up. Came upon next control by chance, but just couldn't be arsed to go back. As it was I only beat the time of 3 other people. Slight problem , being too far north at 8, but relocated, with David's help. The feature for 11, a tree was unreadable on the mapa as the green circle was in the middle of green!! Finished the course, but pissed off by the weather. Soaked to the skin and we were going off to my birthday meal with my hair absolutely soaked through.
