Race Evaluation
Mt. Penn Short Course: Blue
Tundra/Desert
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Ran too fast +00:25 | Saw the bag but it came too early---low 50 seconds. Thought it wasn't mine so went past it. Saw Joe B go up the hill---I was noat into the map yet to figure out he was going to Control 6. I then saw the paved road, turned around, and came back to Control 1, with Joe laughing at me. | |||||
| 2. | Almost bounced off the paved road (going through the dark green in the process). | ||||||
| 3. | I won! I won! | ||||||
| 4. | Went towards the control. Saw the water ahead, nailed it. | ||||||
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| 6. | Used the railroad bed. Snuck through the green on the way (there was that unmapped trail) but used the sight of Control 1 twice to correct while inside the green. | ||||||
| 7. |
Read map too late +00:35 | Misread the contours, so thought the control was on a slope coming down to the SE. Came to the large depression, found it on the map and went directly N to the control. Got distracted by a control to the E on the way and went to it; not mine. Continued NW to the control (followed Karolina K). | |||||
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Bad map reading +00:20 | Got into the reentrant and misread the contours again; thought it was on the E slope instead of on the W slope. I guess I just looked at the ditch; it was on the E side of the ditch; and I subconsciously assumed the ditch was the centerline. Or I was getting anaerobic and irrational. Or one of the two. Found #105, then went SE, then back W around the N side of the dark green. | |||||
| 10. |
Bad compass work +00:10 | Did not use trails. Missed low. | |||||
| 11. |
Did not like map +00:10 | Got stuck in the dark green SW of the control---the bag was well outside the green despite being mapped inside the green. Should have went around the green. | |||||
| 12. |
Bad map reading Lacked concentration +00:30 | Went straight, then picked up the indistinct trail SE of the bag. It ended so I climbed up the spur. The spur went forever, so I went to the first control I saw once I climbed up the spur (the reentrant N of the top of the hill). It didn't make sense and it wasn't mine. Corrected. | |||||
| 13. | Found one other control on the way but didn't slow down much. Started to have a growing urge to relieve the intestines. | ||||||
| 14. | S*t. (Not yet.) | ||||||
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| 16. | Happy just to not spill it. | ||||||
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| F. | Got through it. The urge went away as soon as I stopped. |
Total Time Lost - 00:02:10