Race Evaluation
NEOC: Rocky Woods: Blue
PBricker
| 1. | Trails past the go control. Then up to trail intersection, attacking from east side of pond. Dean punching up ahead, so I made up most of the 2 minutes on the first leg. | ||||||
| 2. | +00:20 | NNW to trail, to little trail bend, between the marshes, then through the gap and heading right for it but ... I couldn't see what was going on in the circle so I stopped on knoll just before the knoll? with the flag. Dean continued past me while I was stationary and got there first (along with a runner on red coming from another direction). | |||||
| 3. | +08:00 | I wanted to get ahead of Dean and the other guy so I took off without looking at the map and I obviously wasn't going in the direction I thought because when I hit a trail, it wasn't the one I thought. Which lead to going the wrong way on trails, with nothing looking right, and a couple times I relocated incorrectly at junctions. Embarrassing. Total lapse in concentration. Took the wind out of my sails as I got back on track and trudged up the big hill. | |||||
| 4. | Trail. | ||||||
| 5. | +00:45 | Around the marsh, and then I caught an indistinct trail, but not the one on the map. When I realized I was on the wrong side of the knoll (too close to the marsh) I was already past it and had to come back. | |||||
| 6. | Straight. | ||||||
| 7. | Trails around to the north, cutting the corner at the end. | ||||||
| 8. | All trails around the west side of June Pond, attacking from due north of the control | ||||||
| 9. | Straight. Finally caught Dean again after spotting him 8 minutes on 3. | ||||||
| 10. | Attacking from the intersection. Missed a tad left, but spotted the flag, which wasn't really on any obvious feature. | ||||||
| 11. | +00:30 | Missed a bit right and checked out a boulder that I should have known was too low. Allowed Dean to catch back up, but I didn't see him again. | |||||
| 12. | Went through the marsh (which was probably slower than going to the trail. Then sidehilled along the west side of the knoll and dropped down right to it. | ||||||
| 13. | Straight, and no real problem, but I walked most of the leg since it was uphill and rocky. | ||||||
| 14. | Straight. Was going to go between the knolls, but terrain looked better going over the first knoll. | ||||||
| 15. | Straight, just right of the marsh. | ||||||
| 16. | +04:00 | Plan was to go north around the first marsh, then through the gap and around the second marsh. But I missed the gap (even though I went through it on the way to 2), and found myself south of the control and confused. Figured it out, but only after wandering further south and had a ways to come back. | |||||
| 17. | Pretty straight, attacking from where the reentrant meets the trail due north of the control. | ||||||
| 18. | Straight. Maybe got a bit too low where the running was crappy. | ||||||
| F. | Fun course. Too bad I wasn't up for it, mentally or physically. |
Total Time Lost - 00:13:35