Race Evaluation
WCOC A-Meet Day 2: Red Day 2
cmorse
| 1. | Another miserable day in the woods - raining from the start, glasses went into the back pocket after the 2nd control. Perhaps contacts? | ||||||
| 2. | +00:20 | overshot a little bit, looked more like a boulder than a cliff to me, thought it was the boulder just S - got to second cliff, turned around and saw bag | |||||
| 3. | +00:30 | couldn't see terrain, drifted down into green, corrected fairly quickly near the bottom | |||||
| 4. | +16:00 | really screwed this one up. Not even sure where it went bad - other than I was running too fast considering I couldn't really see terrain that well - I think I spent most of my time on the hill about 500m east - finally got into the dual stonewalls and then moved on from there. Race was long gone, frustrated - thinking about DNFing... | |||||
| 5. | slow and demoralized. Straight on bearing trying to pick out small close features. | ||||||
| 6. | +05:00 | Didn't want to risk trying to go straight - opted to take trails wide around to NW. Fell many times just trying to jog on the jeep road. following trail up N of 14 I was having trouble making out the trail itself, started following the blue blazes (easier to see) but toward the top of the hill there were a line of blue blazes headed N and roughed up ground besides - followed that - not a trail, but likely a property border. Eventually got over to the marsh - hoped I was at the right marsh, took a bearing and walked slowly up the hill. Wound up somewhere N of 6, but luckily a runner on 6-7 made me turn around and backtrack his route. | |||||
| 7. | Since I was going to finish regardless, I decided to try a different approach to see if I could overcome the fact that I could not see terrain. From here on in I followed the straight line and looked 30m or so ahead, picked out a feature - usually a tree - that I could focus on and ran to that, repeat, repeat etc. Hit 7 ok - just not fast | ||||||
| 8. | straight on line, 30m at a time, cut N of cliffs (I could actually see those) | ||||||
| 9. | straight and clean (and really slow) on all remaining controls | ||||||
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| 21. | +12:00 | Probably another 10-12 minutes on slow blind pace. | |||||
| F. | Max HR 197 on run in. Can't be right - I ran hard but that's too high |
Total Time Lost - 00:33:50