Another look at the toughest leg

I spent some more time looking at the GPS tracks for the section of the WOC women's middle distance final that I wrote about yesterday. But before I got to the 14th leg, I noticed a couple of runners taking a trail route on the 12th leg.

Most of the runners followed the line straight to the control. But, two of them dropped down to the trail, then came back up to the control. In the first map