Summer Mini MM - Round 1 Tegg's Nose/Macclesfield Forrest

Weather hadn't looked too promising earlier in the day, but cleared up nicely in time for the start. Usual format with controls of differing point scores varying from 10 to 25.

Normal tactics, which I've now honed to a fine art, is to pick a route that heads out to the highest scoring control, aiming to be there by half the time allowed, and then wind my way back. With only 2hrs to play with this time instead of the usual 3, I decided to be a little cautious and stick with the 20's and miss out the 25's. With this being the first of a new evening series event, I wasn't sure whether the course planner would gauge it right either.

Having run round the area a few times now I'm finding I'm getting the feel for which tracks to use, and trying them in reverse directions. All in all a good nights running. 170 points bagged and 8.8m and 1800ft. Felt the planner judged it right with placement of controls for the time allowed. No one managed them all on the night, but a couple of runners came close. Might be tempted by one of the 25's next time

Results here
overall - http://www.darkandwhite.co.uk/results/2011SummerEveningMMMRound1overallplaces.html

splits - http://www.darkandwhite.co.uk/results/2011SummerEveningMMMRound1splittimesbyclass.html

TF