Owls Count

The weather yesterday was sunny, but windy and we were far enough east that the rain did not arrive until after we had got home. Last time running on this area I slipped and injured myself.

On looking at the control descriptions before going off it was clear that many of the courses shared several legs - meaning that there would be a lot of people running in the same direction. This was how it proved to be - I always seemed to be in a group. I intend to put my route up at some stage, but when trying to draw it last night I could not remember where I went on a couple of the legs. (Edit: my route.)

Overall my run was ok, but not great. Several small mistakes, nothing too big, and for parts of the course I allowed my pace to drop. The more noticeable mistakes were in the first half of the course. At number 3 I missed a path and then allowed myself to be distracted by some others; at 7 I picked a stupid route when I misread the paths and ended up heading off in the wrong direction for a bit, losing a couple of minutes; and coming out of eight I headed in the wrong direction, meaning a longer path run, which added another couple of minutes to my time.

On leaving the event I was reading SINS - the Southwest Intraregional News Sheet - and realised that I was M21V Southern Champion last year and that I had not even realised. I ran M21S yesterday, which means I did not defend my title.