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Apart from my heavy-ish rucksack I found it quite tiring having to concentrate on the route description. I was glad I’d made the effort to highlight alternate lines and to back up pages 1 %26 3, 2 %26 4 – that certainly helps the page turning. I didn't go wrong but I had to stop several times to make sure I'd read it correctly. When folk were all over the place near Holmbury Hill, I put a grid ref into my GPS to reassure myself that I was going in vaguely the right direction. I also got my compass out after Leith Hill when it said we’d be basically keeping ahead in a northerly direction.
Although up to CP2 I was going about the same pace as Martin Greaves and we chatted a bit, I was really glad he was doing his own thing, leaving me to concentrate. A couple of runners went past me about 6 times, enough to warrant introductions. Luckily they didn’t seem too bothered about going wrong, and were very cheerful. I certainly wouldn’t be that cheerful if I’d gone wrong once, let alone 6 times.
Did anyone else dislike the paragraph starting 26.9 on the revised finish? Only 3.1 miles to go, no problem I thought, but then it was 1400Y, 650Y, 250Y and then, groan, 1000Y. It seemed to go on and on for ever.
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