Owls Count

This past weekend was the Second Oxford City Race. Whereas last year we were in the town centre, this year we were in the north of Oxford and starting from the Parks again. I have plotted my route. The overall comment would be that it was a little less tricky than last year, but still a fantastic race.

I started quickly, but managing to keep my speed under control. At number four I overshot the turning by a bit and had to run round to get into the control. For the next pile of controls I was spot on. At 13 I was lucky that someone else punched it right in front of me - else I would have overshot the control. Going into the college before 16 I made a mistake, hit a dead end, came out of the college, before going back in. Running up the road, to 18, I managed to duck in an entrance early. I quickly realised, helped by the person on the gate saying ‘not in here’ and came back out. Coming out of 20 I did not notice the staircase for the quicker exit and ran back out the way I had gone in. From there it was a case of running as fast as possible into the finish.

All in all a good run, with only one to two minutes of mistakes. Roll on more races like this next year!