Park & Street Orienteering
Eastern Summer Series - Event No. 16
Greythorn
hot- 36 degrees
The course setting is improving. Only 2 controls (#7 and #1) were placed outside of the circle tonight!
I thought I took the obvious first control (15), but of the faster runners, only David Bayley came with me. He took off fast, but I pulled the gap back in after he hesitated a few times on route choice. I decided early to drop 5, but zig zagged through a number of other controls to keep my options open in the second half.
I made the decision to get 9 so that I could leave out 10 and 14. On reflection I should have got 14 and left out 9. This would also have allowed me to pick up 1 from the other end, and avoid the additional 200m of running due to the cul de sac being marked way too far to the east.
The second half was a struggle in the heat.
However, I kept pushing and I did enough to marginally beat Andrew Hester and Bryan Ackerly. This turned a one point deficit in the overall standings into a one point lead for me.