Race Evaluation
Possum Trot Weekend: Sprint
Pink Socks
| 1. | [NOTE: I ran this course on 11/21, when conditions were ideal.] I wanted to look at the map as little as possible before my run, so I had it sealed in an envelope until right before I started. I needed to quickly find out where the start was, and by accident, I started at the finish line. Anyway, this made my first route choice easy, sliding around the north side of the Campenile. | ||||||
| 2. | I just reversed my campus tour route here, taking Memorial to the steps leading up to Snow and around. I guess I could have aimed up for Spencer? | ||||||
| 3. | Look for the steel ball! I had to wait for a truck to cross the street, but that only cost me 1-2 seconds. | ||||||
| 4. | I was pretty sure I knew what I was looking for, but I got a little confused approaching the flag, as that walled-in area had a door wide-open, and I thought for a second that you might have put it in there. I lost maybe 1-2 seconds before I told myself, "no, that door should be closed." | ||||||
| 5. | Being an engineer, I didn't spend a whole lot of time behind the A&D building, so I took this one a little cautiously to make sure that I didn't get screwed over with walls and stuff. Once I figured it was out behind Fowler, I sped up again. | ||||||
| 6. | Ugh, not my smartest route choice, but it wasn't too horrible. I should have taken the driveway between Hoch and Anshutz, but instead I ran just north of control #10 (tour guide route), and then up a lot of stairs. I got scared by the construction, so I wanted to attack from the north, which meant I had to climb a lot of stairs. Wescoe looks totally different on an O-Map, and I was thrown off here, but I got to it without too much trouble. | ||||||
| 7. | I ran through Wescoe down all of those stairs, but there seemed to be more construction in real life than shown on the map. I thought for a second that I was going to get trapped, but I wasn't. I almost ran by the flag on the east side of Malott. Whoops! | ||||||
| 8. | Mary, you got me here. That little "tunnel" into the courtyard of Malott is something I never knew existed, so I thought that I was looking for something in between Malott and Haworth. There's also a new construction zone between those two buildings, so I thought maybe that tunnel was covered up or something. I lost almost a minute here trying to sort out what the heck was going on. | ||||||
| 9. | Seems like this one should have been faster. Maybe I got tired or something? | ||||||
| 10. | One of my favorite legs of all time. I turned and ran, and I just broad-jumped over that hedge, landing, and stumbling over the sidewalk right up to that big tree! | ||||||
| 11. | I went south. I'm curious how much longer (if at all) it would take going to the north? | ||||||
| 12. | Campus knowledge helped me here, I'll admit. Instead of counting "1, 2, 3", I counted "Summerfield, Haworth, Dole", and I turned my mind on auto-pilot for two minutes. | ||||||
| 13. | Nothing to say about this one. | ||||||
| 14. | "What building is that?... Oh, Watkins Home." Once I figured that one out, that one was pretty easy. | ||||||
| 15. | I might have messed this one up, I think. I didn't have a clue sheet, and there was a crease at the control location, so I'm not sure what I was supposed to find. I just went up to the front door of Watson, but I'm guessing that you put it down in the "moat" on the west side. See, I came from the east from around Twente (the stairs to the east of Twente), so putting the control in that western moat is a good idea. | ||||||
| 16. | I attacked from the west here. Again, I found myself saying out loud, "Oh, that's behind Lippincott." | ||||||
| 17. | Sooo.. another not-so-smart leg. I'm guessing the best thing is to take Memorial Drive (flat) to the Campenile, and then down the hill. But, for some reason, I decided to beeline it down into Marvin's grove to the start triangle and then I skirted around the Campenile to the north (for a second time in the race), and then down the hill. By going this way, I added 3 unnecessary lines of climb. However, since I took this as a route choice, did you consider that you might have competitors running through the start area mid-course? I also slipped and fell at the flag here, slipping in a hole full fo leaves. There were two people right in front of me when I did it. D'oh! | ||||||
| 18. | I went around to the north, which I think is safer. I know that sometimes the south end of the lake can get a little messy. | ||||||
| 19. | My eyes and brain found this one instantly. My legs didn't want to get there that fast. | ||||||
| 20. | Gotta keep running. Gotta keep running. I never knew this little trail existed. I don't exactly know what the feature was, but it could easily be a pile of empty beer cans! | ||||||
| 21. | Looped around to the north. | ||||||
| 22. | Again, I knew what I was looking for, so I just headed up the sidewalk. | ||||||
| F. | I had a dog chase me. That was fun. |
Total Time Lost - 00:00:00