| Leg |
Attackpoint |
Route Choice |
| 1 |
SW end of bridge |
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| 2 |
Track junction |
Need to pick the track entrance soon after the highway underpass, a vital stepping stone |
| 3 |
Road bend |
South out of #2 might enable riding rather than pushing. You can go MUCH further if you can ride. |
| 4 |
Road end/lane start |
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| 5 |
Open land (park) on right |
The other lane would have been an option except for the steps at its entrance. |
| 6 |
Track exit |
The extent to which you cut across the grass in the little park, whoop-de-do! |
| 7 |
Road junction |
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| 8 |
Narrow track widens considerably |
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| 9 |
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With paving being slightly faster than the gravel trail, is it worth using the tiny park to get onto the road, then there's paving almost to the control. |
| 10 |
Choice here: junction under the purple line, or the tree in the white. Latter much easier to find! |
Classic case of the short option being trickier, I saw lots miss the junction. |
| 11 |
Its the track one way or the other |
The longer black track or the slower yellow strip. Pale yellow means rough ie slow. |
| 12 |
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Depending on whether the long grass has been tracked by earlier teams or not, you might back out towards the river crossing to get on better riding sooner |
| 13 |
Narrow track comes out into open |
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| 14 |
Bridge (but you probably saw a pile of bikes here!) |
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| 15 |
The fence bending away from the road |
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| 16 |
You could count the gaps in the white trees (dodgy) but easier would be the big bend that the fence makes away from the road. |
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| 17 |
The hill itself |
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| 18 |
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Road and round the N end of the red? Under the bidge probably shorter. |
| 19 |
Fence and watercourse on your R. Pre-warning where river trail exits onto highway. |
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| 20 |
Loop on the river trail. Pre-warning at the S-bend. |
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| 21 |
River trail exit to highway. |
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| 22 |
Hard to tell which clump of trees when you're over on the river trail going quite fast - how about when you pass the tower of rocks over the river?
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| 23 |
Nothing great - how about the watercourse just past it? |
Need to pick the indistinct path turnoff from the main river trail - vital stepping stone. |
| 24 |
Fence |
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| 25 |
Where the river swings away and dry riverbed starts |
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| 26 |
Track exit onto riverbed |
Indistinct track (on riverbed) vs back out onto the fast gravel road. Partly for its speed but more that you can be sure about getting the AP right. |
| 27 |
S end of big road loop |
Choice of getting back onto gravel road ASAP vs saving a bit of distance by angling across the riverbed. |
| 28 |
Trees too numerous. Choose something unique like (a) paving square or even (b) where the watercourse crosses the river trail. |
A lot to be said for sticking on the fast riding for as long as poss (unless you can do maths on the optimum angle!) |
| 29 |
A unique feature is the fence on the highway side of the wide branch of the river trail - it has an END not too far away from the control. |
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| F |
Bridge underpass |
Two branches of river trail are the same distance away and you want to get off the grass. Probably the narrower one. |