Omm 2009

[RobW]

Noticed that too. Slime mould of some kind? Never got round to taking a proper look.

[southernsoftie]

Anybody tried this yet?

http://www.omm.routegadget.co.uk/

Wow. Very cool.

[RobW]

How come? I checked the route gadget and your point 1 seems straightforward.

We thought so too. Followed the mapped track to its end, took a bearing towards the control (thick mist), counted paces from where we crossed the ridge path. This took us straight to the wrong re-entrant facing NE not NW. Headed W checking a few more re-entrants. Hit a fence, no fence on map, gone too far, back tracked, attacked the control from another direction, refound same wrong re-entrant, worked round the slope a few 100m and hey presto, deep re-entrant facing NW, just beyond the unmapped fence. From this we concluded (1) the first track probably goes a fair bit further round than the map suggests and (2) don't expect mapping of fences by Stirling Surveys to be very complete.

Well you did ask! Quite a few other teams had a bit of fun with this one, but not as much fun as we did!

[ydt]

We thought so too. Followed the mapped track to its end, took a bearing towards the control (thick mist), counted paces from where we crossed the ridge path. This took us straight to the wrong re-entrant facing NE not NW. Headed W checking a few more re-entrants. Hit a fence, no fence on map, gone too far, back tracked, attacked the control from another direction, refound same wrong re-entrant, worked round the slope a few 100m and hey presto, deep re-entrant facing NW, just beyond the unmapped fence. From this we concluded (1) the first track probably goes a fair bit further round than the map suggests and (2) don't expect mapping of fences by Stirling Surveys to be very complete.

Well you did ask! Quite a few other teams had a bit of fun with this one, but not as much fun as we did!

In every MM my biggest fear is messing up the first checkpoint. It has happened so many times, we now warn each other to be particularly careful.
Yiannis

[paulo]

In every MM my biggest fear is messing up the first checkpoint. It has happened so many times, we now warn each other to be particularly careful.
Yiannis

I've had exactly the same experience more than once. This time I had warned my partner, who was on his first MM, to nag me and make me stop and think and recheck route plan and nav for CP1 on both days rather than let me go at it like a bull at a gate. He duly did this to good effect and I then proceeded to arse up CP2 on day 2 instead

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[Chris K]

What were the opaque lumps of jelly like stuff I kept seeing on the ground?

This the same 'star snot' that has been a topic of conversation on Radio Scotlands' 'Go Outdoors' program since last winter. If I was technically able I'd give you a link to the site, but I'm not, so I can't!
There were one or two piles near my checkpoint on day 2, but I was being so entertained by the regular victims finding the ever deepening plunge pool in front of the control, I forgot to get a proper look.
ps I did try to warn people how deep parts of it could be.

[ydt]

I've had exactly the same experience more than once. This time I had warned my partner, who was on his first MM, to nag me and make me stop and think and recheck route plan and nav for CP1 on both days rather than let me go at it like a bull at a gate. He duly did this to good effect and I then proceeded to arse up CP2 on day 2 instead

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Nice one paulo
ydt

[creaky]

slime mold????
thought it was someones breakfast

What a load of old tussocks that was!

Hear is a tale of woe to lighten your day......At day two finish , pair behind us , one partner complaining loudly that he was massively dehydrated and totally shag..d as well.
I made some comment about the graet run from the last control one the path.

pause for effect

his partner ( who was scanning the map ) then let out some sort of visceral groan...."there was a last compulsory control...noooooooooo!!!!!!!,

What would you do??? what would Joss do??? ( they went back up..heroes both )

[Baggins]

Well that was interesting my first OMM.

Stepped in with 4 weeks to go as my partners regular MM partner had to drop out with an injury then had a dose of flu in the last week.

I fell over more in two days than in the last 10 years fellrunning.

Caught a stone on a track in the first hour and went headlong down a steep slope for 20 feet then we got into the tussocks

To think I was running in the bogs around Lank Rigg for training, how naive.

At one point my partner had to pull me out of a bog as one leg had gone in so deep and many a time I would find myself face down in those babies heads wondering what I was doing.

I even fell over going down that ramp into the camping field.

Spent most of the latter part of both days trying to keep up with my partner so found it really tough but we managed 19th in the A class.

All in all I really enjoyed it, now wondering what I could do if I trained a bit more for it

[gej]

We (also A) did exactly the same thing. Trouble was we got a bit distracted sometimes following the masses and found ourselves at one of their controls rather than our own. No-one to blame for that but ourselves

P.S. The dilemma was when to peel off the motorways.

Were you one of the little group who visited the sheepfold on the B course (near our day 2 no 6) ? I got lazy because I was sure that I was following some other A teams - trouble is we were all going the wrong way.