Training Log Archive: IanW

Lakes Training Tour - Tarn Hows. Course: "Relentless". A bit wet to start, taking it relatively easy, trying to look for every route between controls as have been missing good routes too easily recently. Also trying to read all of the detail along the way to get into Lakes terrain, and deliberately going off line a couple of times to see how certain things were mapped. Very slippery and wet underfoot mean was taking things pretty slowly/carefully - even dobs don't necessarily give enough grip on wet leaves covering rocky slopes... Couple of little misses but otherwise fairly good technically.

Norwegian course on Tarn Hows - "Espress-O" - one parallel error following the wrong line of marshes/ponds to a reentrant, but worked out where I'd gone wrong without the need to go back to the map fragment. Physically feeling a bit weak, although Lakes areas are always going to be tougher physically than most things down south...