Just a quick report on today.
There were training maps for the Sprint that I didn’t get to earlier in the week. Lots of open space in old military camps. This morning was the Sprint. Also in an old but very overgrown military installation. Concrete ruins among the jungle. We were allowed to ride anywhere on the map. Just as well – so couldn’t get out of bounds when trying to follow a dotty track in the green.
Just as I was about to start the heavens opened. Very heavy rain. There had just been a few showers earlier. Very hard to see what I was doing for the first couple of controls. Then things improved and I was going well. Had left my rival scratching her head a while back. Then I rode over a spike or something. Immediate flat back tyre. About 1.5 km from the finish. Walking now on a flat area. Decided to cut a corner and risk finding a way through the green. Not a great idea. I was second by less than a minute. Bugger!
Middle distance this afternoon. 3 km ride and a fair climb to get to the start. Some rough tracks had me walking almost everywhere there was an uphill. Some very tricky areas with lots of tracks. Lots of standing and looking at the map. My rival missed a control so it’s 1-1 for the day. She’s much better on the hills than I am so I expect she’ll win tomorrow on the same hill provided she manages the navigation.
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