Race Evaluation
OCIN Harbin Park: Green
hkleaf
| 1. | Went left along veg boundary, across bridge, around pond, and follow trail to spur. | ||||||
| 2. | Backtrack a little to trail junction, then left on trail thru opening, into ditch. | ||||||
| 3. | Crashed thru the medium green in a general northerly direction. Came out into the open right of the flag, probably on the eastern edge of control circle. | ||||||
| 4. | Ran along S edge of veg boundary, then thru to N edge via the opening and straight to control. | ||||||
| 5. |
Bad map reading Did not read control description +00:10 | Popped thru the thicket just W of #4 (there was a narrow opening), then along the red line towards frisbee golf tee. Came thru another opening in the thicket (pass yellow #5). Went between the two thickets, then got confused briefly because I didn't see the control (it was behind yet another thicket just around the corner when I was expecting it to be closer to the sign). | |||||
| 6. | Straight. Almost got choked/sliced by a barbwire-looking vine coming out of the control. | ||||||
| 7. | Took the left route. Thru the thicket again by yellow #5, up the slope towards gazebo, ran on the path for a bit, then straight towards the finger-like open area to to main N-S trail. Ran the trail ups and downs all the way to the end. Around the utility building, up along the re-entrant, then left up the hill. Never found the indistinct path, but recognized the southern distinctive tree to locate myself. | ||||||
| 8. |
Did not plan ahead Bad map reading Bad compass work +00:45 | Should've taken a more precise bearing, or better yet read the map more carefully and just contour along the hillside to the control. Instead, I took a rough bearing and ran uphill. Hit the fence and saw the houses just beyond. Then slowly worked my way N to control. | |||||
| 9. |
Did not plan ahead Lacked confidence Hesitated | Was going slow (still recovering from mistake at 8) and a bit unsure which way I wanted to go. Trying to follow the fence line was hard, so used the terrain instead. Ended up just slight right of red line when I hit the first trail. followed it around to junction, then decided to go xc towards the stream. Contoured along trail just above stream to the sharp u-bend, then across stream and up re-entrant to 9. | |||||
| 10. |
Bad route choice Read map too late | Ran the trail S to open field, then crashed thru medium green from the v-corner and came on the trail at its bend. Followed it westward to just past the bend. Attacked control from top end of ditch. Was maybe 5m off to the N. | |||||
| 11. | Went down the re-entrant to stream bed. Ran along it downstream to the marsh. Footing wasn't too bad. | ||||||
| 12. | Back on the N-S trail. This time turned right at the 3rd junction and ran eastward. Down and up a steep re-entrant straight to the flag instead of going around on trail. | ||||||
| 13. | Down the spur to stream. Then ran along stream bed to the re-entrant at 9/13. Perhaps running along the trails would've been faster? | ||||||
| 14. | Headed E up the slope to the trail, then S to open field. E along the narrow ride to its bend, and in to the re-entrant. | ||||||
| 15. | Hopped on the trail just SE of control to the bend, then thru the semi-white to the eastern narrow ride. Followed that S, took a R at first split, and L at second split, then around the thicket edge to control. | ||||||
| F. | Straight. Jumped over one cable fence, then along the paved road to finish at gazebo. |
Total Time Lost - 00:00:55