Training Log Archive: grilla

Feeling very incompetent after yesterday. I seem to be really struggling in reading and interpreting the detail on this map. So, taking it easy to start. 1 and 2 were really easy, 2 almost stupidly so. 3 was also easy but I missed it, overthinking things. 4 I came really unstuck and did not see my control was up a contour. Lost a lot of time very close to the right spot (livelox is a comedy). Got my act together for the next few. Just misread the location for 9 so did an unnecessary circuit of the big boulder. Then back across into the green. I thought I was doing this OK. I was being careful and checking myself the whole green section. But I met AlIisonI in the midst who said she was going to follow me as she'd been lost a long time. I did not object but it seems that I got a bit distracted and when I got to the circle and did not see the control, went very silly. This played out in further mega time-loss for 12 and 14. By 15 I'd had enough fighting the green so went around. Got 16 fine but it was a slow way to do it. Same for 17. Made it to the finish.

Not sure why some demographic got the 7,500 map and others 10,000. I might have seen the detail at 4 on the different scale :(.

So after the weekend, I have lost a huge amount of confidence - maybe the kick I needed. I have not been so lost or without a clue for many years. Maybe I was pushing a bit harder than I was capable of. Need to rebuild my techniques from scratch I think.

Day 3 Course 14 - Splits