M45L was 6.5k with 270m of climb and 15 controls, and took me 53 minutes.
Hampsfell has underlying limestone, which gives rise to some really technical orienteering in the woods and some open hill which is fast, except when covered with limestone pavement.
I had an early start and ran pretty well apart from mixing up some paths between 2 and 3, which cost me ca 30 seconds, and having difficulty finding number 6. I reckoned I lost ca 3 minutes there, although comparing splits with others (who hadn't lost time) suggested it was less than that! A number of people felt the control was hung too far to the north. The mapper (who ran the M45L course) had problems finding the control and interestingly, my daughters 1:5000 map didn't show the pit that the control was sited at.
Thereafter, I ran well and was leading at the last control, but a slow run in time (on one of the roughest run-ins I've ever done!) allowed Donald Petrie through to secure a 12 second victory.
Results and overall results. Overall results were based on the best 4 results, which ironically for me, meant day 3 (which was probably my best run) not counting.
At the prizegiving with Andy Hyslop of WAROC (left) and Donald Petrie of CLYDE (right).
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