Day 2: Kinnoull Hill (5.1 km 150 m climb 16 controls 112:52)

We awoke to a beautiful day. This was the view off of our back deck.

We were one of the first competitors to the meet site. Later there would be cars parked all over the place.

We are so early that the finish is still being set up when we got there.

The walk to the start was shorter at only 1 meter, but the first part was straight uphill.

The course started and ended poorly for me. I was 26 minutes to the first control. After that, I recovered well and navigated somewhat cleanly from 1-14. Then there were the last two-three controls! I took a poor route choice from 13-14, then I hosed 14-15. After finding 15, I lost my mind when I came off the hill at a 45 degree angle and went through an uncrossable gate into an out of bounds area. Oops! At the time I remembered looking at the purple line and saying out loud that I had no idea what the purple line meant. The stuff on the other side didn’t match up, but I sure tried to make it fit. There were others who did the same thing. Of course, the smarter ones turned back before they were shooed back by someone on the String-O course. Very embarrassing.

Here I am finishing down the correct hill.

I finished 74/78 today, but this was my favorite map, and the download setup was truly unique.

After leaving the event, we drove back to Edinburgh to take care of some paperwork at the rental place. For dinner, we went to the The Old Armoury in Pitlochry and had dinner with Sandy, Cristinia, and Melissa.