Yellowwood and Swedes

Ran the blue course at the ICO Yellowwood meet last weekend.  Legs felt good.  Nav was pretty much spot on, (although I did have a couple of questionable route choices).  I only had to slow down a bit twice to make sure that I really was where I thought I was.  (I was both times, but it still cost me time)

And I still got schooled.

Granted, it was only 4 minutes, but when Cristal attempted to cover for my potentially slower run while talking with Mattias (a Swede, that's relevant later) by letting him know that I'd been travelling the past week and had not been able to train he responded by saying, "I don't really train much".  (Or something close enough to that as to not matter.)  Still a good effort by Cristal.

Thankfully this beating wasn't anywhere as bad as the Conquer the Crossroads drubbing of 2010 where Fredrik and Rachel from Bushwhacker smoked McInnes and I by two and a half days (OK, it was hours, but it may as well have been days.)

Fredrik is from Sweden too.

Damn Swedes...

Here's the blue course:

And here's links to our routes.  I managed to get them overlaid in Google Earth, but haven't the foggiest how to post that here so I'll summarize.

Mattias had a better route.

Mattias

Mike