Wednesday, 24 August 2011

Mini Mountain Marathoning Again - 11/08/2011

Another Dark and White mini mountain marathon, but sadly this time without my running partner who was on nights.

I had been held up at a meeting in Retford and only just made it in time to start before the 19:00 cut-off. The weather was pretty grim: it rained all the way round.

I had a good start but then mucked up the navigation leaving CP7 so had a very scenic and slow trip to the next one, including 4 minutes stood working out where the heck I was. Not normal for me really - usually I know precisely where I am but can't remember why I'm there...

Anyway I finished with a good uphill pull from the final CP and only 2 penalty points this time giving me 183 points from a maximum of 265.

There's a link to my route here, and I'll try to get the event map scanned and posted soon.

2 comments:

  1. Well done Jim you finished more than 40points ahead of us.

    Will you be doing the Autumn Winter series?

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  2. Bit of an effort though, I found. I ducked out of going for the really high scoring ones furthest away and did the CP down by the trail below the village instead - cost me points I think in the end. I'll check the dates for the autumn/winter - it'd be cool to arrange to meet up after one!

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