The Crying Mile – 17 controls, 1.4 km, 1:1500 map – and, yes, it made me cry. Well, scream, shout and bang the handlebars….
I started and immediately made a mistake, getting confused and thinking the map was a smaller scale than it was while traversing the first valley, and before I knew it, I was misplaced. Misplaced then became completely lost as I now know I rode off the map. Not just a little ride off the map but a huge one. Eventually admitting defeat I just turned North and headed on a safety bearing to try and find a road and perhaps get back to the car park.
From the car park I had another go at number one and bounced around the map until I eventually got my eye in and I was then away picking off the controls in grand style. My time for the first split: 16 minutes, my time for the rest of the course: 14 minutes – what a Muppet….
The Crying Mile was fantastic training, but the tracks were very indistinct and 
everything came up so fast that people were all over the place….
One to put down to experience I think, and I won’t be the only one – I didn’t have the slowest split to number 1, and I wasn’t last!
The forest was amazing and chatting to Per and Maria who live locally they have training packs for clubs to come and use, one for Chasers to consider for a club trip, me thinks.
Results here – just look down almost at the bottom for the Muppet.