BAOC “Around Aldershot” MTBO & Long-O
About a month or so ago I was feeling rather keen and decided to enter this event. In the end I ran the medium bike course, which was a course of about 16km. Though I managed to add quite a bit of distance to that.
The event used Longmoor, Woolmer, and Bordon, with the maps being joined together with a couple of segments of OS map. I started well, finding it easier to get quickly into the map than a lot of the cyclists. However, at five I, like many others, struggled with the OS map. In the end I lost at least 15 minutes on this one control. Going to 13 I picked a poor route and got bogged down in a marsh, which I had intended to skirt round and lost a few minutes.
Apart from those two mistakes there were a couple of poor route choices, but they did not cost me much time. Overall I finished in 2:41:07, but should have made it round in 2:15.
