I was cold wet and windy - perfect conditions for a wind farm on elevated rough land south west of Glasgow. A three hour Mountain Bike event in the massive windfarm with nice easy gravel tracks between the various turbines. Navigation was straightforward which I'm not complaining about! Thought about an early finish a few times but the weather eased periodically and I made good progress picking off the controls thinking at one point I'd get round them all with plenty of time to spare. There was a long and rough section near the end however that slowed me right down and ended up running out of time. Finished 4 minutes over the time limit having visited all controls. Score wise the better decision would have been to skip up to the last 3 controls and get back in time even though they were only quite short detours.
Great fun. Worked pretty hard at the end to try to finish quickly.
Interesting place with a surprising number of people out for a walk amongst the wind turbines. The visit centre and cafe was quite nice.
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