Race Evaluation
Pine Hill: Advanced
cmorse
| 1. | +01:45 | watch only holds one set of splits, forgot to write them down before running Thurs am. Forgot running glasses, start times moved up, rushed to get ready - headed for #1 along parking lot had trouble concentrating on racing - just not in race mode.... end of parking lot planning to cut S of larger pond - lots of briars in white, got pushed R, slow feeling my way over hill, wound up at wall due S of control down by stream, contoured over to punch behind Kenny - i think he started 2 min back - very shaky start | |||||
| 2. | refocus, chase kenny straight, reading map even at speed chasing ken - getting into race finally | ||||||
| 3. | down reentrant to trail, leave big trail at jct & contour around, perhaps 15m back from kenny | ||||||
| 4. | straight, gain a little ground | ||||||
| 5. | +01:30 | consider retracing route to avoid climb, but ken goes straight & so do I. crash hard in reentrant just short on control, glasses go flying, lost well over a minute searching the leaf litter | |||||
| 6. | straight, ken is obviously gone now, | ||||||
| 7. | +01:15 | lose glasses turning out of control, put them in pocket, rest of run blind. W to trail, s to dot knoll and into woods crossing N of small pond, but picking in vegetation forces me too high on ridge, slow picking in veg until get into white on small spur to W, quickly see flag blurrily to left & correct | |||||
| 8. | straight, catch marek again | ||||||
| 9. | trail past junction, then once i see wall, spike | ||||||
| 10. | +00:25 | r around marsh, over knoll - crappy - to second trail, then L on trails attack from knoll - should have stuck to white and gone L leaving marsh | |||||
| 11. | trails until down slope near end, then straight | ||||||
| F. | trail, surprisingly clean even though blind. 3rd - well behind ken & kristen hall, but 22 others had even slower day in woods - lots of bloodletting today = shorts+briars - but tights would have been shredded. I think if i had racing glasses with me, i might have been able to stay with kenny - not bad for an old guy.. |
Total Time Lost - 00:04:55