Black Mountains MTBO - Round 6 (Pandy)
I plotted a route to clear the course and measured it to be 51km. Doable I thought because I managed 49km last time.
I started really well and collected CP01, C02, CP11, CP10 (in/out), CP12 (in/out), CP04, CP05, CP14 (in/out), CP06, CP13, CP15, CP17.
Then it all fell apart!
I lost 17mins on CP18. I overshot the turning to it and ended up in the valley bottom :-(. So I biked back up and headed up an overgrown track thinking it was the right track. Wrong. I was bushwhacking and finally stumbled upon it. Aaarrghhh!
I did CP20 (in/out) and then somehow managed to cycle past CP19 on the climb in Mynydd Du Forest. I lost 6 minutes here.
I then continued to pick up CP21, CP22, CP23, CP24, CP25, CP07, CP08 and CP10.
I thought I had cleared the course but later discovered that I didn't get CP03. I can't have been thinking straight at this point as I was planning to get it after CP09.
I got back to the finish 25mins late. I lost 23mins in errors. So had I not made the errors I would have won.
However I won the series so I wasn't too bothered by the bad day. Got some nice prizes including MTB mudguards, rear light plus some other small stuff.
Race map (with pre-start plan):
https://plus.google.com/photos/1131118458705487494...
Link to previous race in this area:
http://ar.attackpoint.org/viewlog.jsp/user_6793/pe...