Owls Count

An event in the New Forest, in January, after some recent heavy rain, suggested lots of mud and marsh, but this was not really the case. While the paths were often deep in mud and the marshes wet, if you could avoid both then it was fairly dry and runnable. I decided to do the brown course and had an ok, if rather slow, run.

For the early part of the course I struggled to keep running in a straight line. I was drifting off one way or the other. Not sure why. I wasted a few minutes through this - either to relocating once I had drifted off course or to the extra distance run. At number twelve I lost a couple of minutes when I missed the control - it was a lot closer to the fence than it should have been and on hitting the vegetation boundary I just did not spot it a few metres to my right and turned and ran the other way. However, apart from that I found it to be a fairly good course.