No pressure - Training Day 4

Day 4's training was on the map from Sundays long event. The course we did in the morning was of a similar style of the previous days. Several controls in highly complex areas on one hand verses nice route choice longer legs. Again the trick was to find nice paths on the long legs and to have good safe attack points (as close as possible) into the controls. This was all possible, and relocation is becoming easier in the complex contours (regrettably the need is not necessarily becoming less frequent).

Route choice

On the leg 7-8 Tania and Cindy cut to the path south of the red line once they had crossed the tar road. Nico went north. On 8-9 Nico stayed south of the red line, Tania went north and Cindy did a combination of both. The trick is getting the hang of the speed variation. Fast on the long legs (rocks and vegetation permitting) and then to reduce speed in the complex areas in order to avoid mistakes. Accurate navigation is very possible at a slow pace.

Control picking - with a few hand drawn controls

In the afternoon Nico and Tania went in opposite directions to go do some extra control picking. Tania went cruising around the second part of the morning course. Nico played nice fast ping pong in the complex area around the first part of the morning course.