Now I feel I should explain myself before anyone sees my route choice on open5 website....
My original plan involved going to get 18 then 17 then 13 however on closer inspection I didn't think I could get from 18-17 on a bridleway without going a long way round and regaining height and I also discovered going to 17 alone wasn't really worth the 15 points for climbing up to hollins cross....
So I decided I would get 13 first...and I was so intent on going to 13 I didn't notice I rode straight past 15 on my way there (the highest point value MTB control.) after 13 I went to 9 - then noticed I wanted to go to 15 so instead of taking a normal route I went to 15 - missed it because I thought I was on the wrong bridleway and climbed back up to it anyway.. - extra 1.5km...
After this I looked at the map and thought how can I rescue this...the answer was I couldn't so I got what I could - 19, 16 and 11
Taking me to a pitiful score of 155 for my 2hrs42 of effort.... I am actually stupid! should have replanned my entire route instead of going 13,9,15,19,16,11.....you will see how stupid when the results go up here :
http://www.openadventure.com/results.php (under race analysis MTB).