Owls Count

I have been meaning to go up to York for the city race for a few years now, but there has always been something else happening on the bank holiday weekend. This year was different and so I put the race in my calendar. We stayed at a camp site just outside York and while we did not have the rain that swept through the south of England it was very windy – a good test of the tents!

This year EBOR had gained access to the National Railway Museum and so the courses started with a trail-o like section through the museum before the main course. I had little problem with this first section apart from one control which I messed up by not reading the instructions carefully enough and finding out that zero was an option.

For the main part of the race I did ok, but not great. I kept letting my pace drop and my navigation was scrappy. No large mistakes, but my route choice could have been better – particularly on the longer legs.