A Man's time for a Man's course - non of this sissy-boy sub-95 crap.
After yesterday I just wanted no big mistakes. I knew I'd get tried and I'd struggle with any really technical nav and heavy terrain later on in the course.
Dropped too low on #2 (a common problem when contouring near crags - not that contouring was anywhere near the right option). Very steady on 4 and 7 in the vague LG as I didn't want to get lost - bit off on 4 and very very slow and hesitant to 7 but fell right into it thankfully.
Took the 'maverick' pathed right RC to 9 as I wanted a bit of running, didn't want to get lost in the contours west of the control (no problem looking at them now) and somehow never saw the option through #5. Still managed to stuff up my aproach making a parallel error on re-entrants.
Nailed 10, 11 and 12, off on 13 but popped out in an easily-relocatable location. Wrong crag on 14, slow to 15 at which point I had a Lillomarka guy to help me through the tricky slope section - he led into #18 (high) then I led into #19 (low) - a good job he was about as I can easily imagine me doing what Tim did on #18, only more so.
I then took the heavy option to 20 and it killed me - I didn't really know my name getting towards the circle, let alone what I was doing, and it was a slog from then on. Uber-cautious on the downhill legs to 25 and 26 as there was no way I was clambering back up to a control. Once I'd escaped from the close-green hashing SE of 26 I got a second wind and flew the last couple of (easy running, downhill) controls - good job, as I snuck in at the front of a 4-man group separated by 9 seconds!
still got Colliered for the first time since, well, yesterday. All down to my lack of thought process from 19 onwards (water would have been nice).
My last 2 meaty classics (Holme Fell and Creag Mhic) were both north of 150mins, so nice to get way under that. The only way is up!