Race Evaluation
BAOC China Camp: Blue
Tundra/Desert
| 1. | Route Gadget is here. | ||||||
| 2. | In a quest to aviod the worst green, I dropped one too many contours and had to climb back. | ||||||
| 3. | Was shaky around the control; the clearings and the reentrant seemed lower than mapped. | ||||||
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Bad route choice +01:00 | Ooh bad bad route choice. The indistinct trail had several dead oaks with all their branches, but even without that obstacle straight would not have been faster. | |||||
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| 6. | WinSplit thinks I made an error... I don't think so, even though I did cover extra climb by going over the top. | ||||||
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Bad distance judgement +03:55 | "I oughta be careful, this looks like the most technical leg on the whole course", I told myself. "I better be too high than too low, the vegetation is surely nicer where it's higher", I also told myself as I left #6. Well, I kept climbing and climbing and climbing to where the vegetation looked better and better and better... and in the process got detached from the map, miscounted reentrants, and ended up one spur too far. Boo. | |||||
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Bad map reading +00:40 | Didn't see the water near the trail... Thought the control would be near the bottom of the large reentrant—bad map reading. Once I got there, I read out that it was two contours up. By then I was too low. If I had known it was up two contours from the bottom, I would have gone down the next spur. I should really have an advantage on a brutal leg like this, even in my current shape. | |||||
| 9. | Contoured to the reentrant junction, then up. | ||||||
| 10. | Here's where the brutal advantage came up. Hee-hee. The trail bends were distinct enough to attack easily. | ||||||
| 11. | Had planned this one in advance, so no downhill hesitation or map reading. It worked. | ||||||
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Bad map reading +00:10 | I think mindsweeper sort of lucked out on the non-green gradual climb on this one. I did misread the trail and headed uphill for a moment too early, but a very short moment. Tony Pinkham found the control for me. | |||||
| 13. | The little hill at the end was a classic climb/distance tradeoff... I'm glad I didn't buy into the easy way (there'll be time for that shortly... at #17). | ||||||
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| 15. | Didn't see the water, again!... It seems that my route was too much distance, but more likely I only lost to mindsweeper because I was getting tired. | ||||||
| 16. | Couldn't easily figure out which tree was a green circle and which, a white blob (both single trees), and there was no brush, just knee-high chaparral, so was confused and moving slowly. | ||||||
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Bad route choice Read map too late +01:05 | Here's where I should have just went straight and opted to contour, instead... a useless, weak option. | |||||
| 18. | I did stay off the marsh! you cheaters. | ||||||
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| 20. | I was the only one to go really creative on this one. Don't think it was the fastest route, but certainly the most predictable, without a chance to get stuck in the undermapped green. Mindsweeper lucked out on this one again. | ||||||
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| 24. | Surprised everyone went straight on this one. I was going to contour, and Chuck Spalding was going around the green on the E side and got there before I did. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:06:50