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Thorndon North HAVOC Limited District Event, 23 July

July 27th, 2005 by Ollie

Thorndon Park Extract My final “regular” race this season, and a warmup for the Scottish 6-Day International Festival of Orienteering. Normally in late July, most forests would be consumed with undergrowth, however Thorndon North, a large forested country park just south of Brentwood in Essex, was in fine condition, with a maze of paths in the northern section providing a real challenge, and a pleasing range of terrain to provide a slight mental and physical test. And my technical skills that were just as rusty as my physical ones - my worst mistakes were at the first and the last controls - a hesitation due to mispacing at the first meant I remained too far up a bank and not far enough around. The last control was marred by distractions of walkers, a bearing error and some ambiguity in the mapping. This was my most serious mistake and I wasted 4-5 minutes here.