Originally Posted by
anthonykay
Well, I didn't come last . . .
My navigation was perfect; but there is a big difference between navigation and finding the best line. I knew where I was, and where I was going, relative to the features on the map at all times (even though I never looked at the map during the race, having spent so much time studying it beforehand that it was imprinted in my brain). But "where I was going" was often through the roughest terrain. The contouring leg from CP1 to CP2 is considered the crux: ahead of me, some runners went high and others went low; I took the straightest route, in the middle, through scree, tussocks, . . .