Epic doesn't begin to cover it. Should have seen the size of the map we got presented with at registration! This was the first navigating event I'd done where you got to see sight of the map prior to the start. A whole evening with a couple glasses of wine to help (or hinder) route decisions.
B course CP's
Day 1 Dowthwaite Farm - Birkhouse Moor - Helvellyn - Grisdale Hause - Mill House (A591) - Helm Crag - Seathwaite Campsite
Day 2 Seathwaite campsite - Green Gable - Robinson's Cairn - High Crag - Red Pike - Addacombe Beck (path junction 370m) - Brandlehome Woods ( near Withesike bay) - Finish on bank of Watendlath Beck just south of Moss Mire woods
Day 3 Watendlath Beck - Harrop Tarn - Hevellyn Lower Man - Dowthwaite Moss (track junction) - Dowthwaite Farm
Times Day 1 7:34, Day 2 9:39 Day 3 4:36. 6th overall on 'B'
Provisional results are on the GL3day website, see previous post.
I appear in the overall results for the 'B' course as I stuck with that course for the whole weekend. Others did a bit of 'mix and match' with the 3 courses on offer or a version of their own by missing out a few cp's. For me, a steady first day, day 2 grim - had to stop for a coffee in Buttermere to warm up, much better 3rd day.
With a lot of late finishers on day 2, it was decided that all competitors would use the 'bad weather' courses for day 3. Weather was not nearly as grim as day 2 but clag down to 300m all the same. My course would have had to go to Great Dodd after Lower Man, instead we got to contour off at Sticks Pass.
Hat's off to those on the Elite and 'A', and good effort to the one's that gave them a go. I'll leave the map in my car so if anyone fancies a go next year (although it is very pricey) you can have a look to see where the other courses went!
TF
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