Race Evaluation
Colorado 5-Day: US Night-O Champs: Red
Nadim
| 1. | +00:45 | My light was charged before I left for Colorado. I tried to top it off again a couple hours before the event but it never went to green indicating a full charge--this worried me. Our first control was straight into the scary reentrants. I ran straight until reaching the woods then went slowly up the ridge to the fence where I could see the makings of the reentrant. Dropping down, I passed the control then came back to it. | |||||
| 2. | +01:15 | Still playing it safe, I ran up the ridge until the big reentrant, then angled down. I was going just fine until I read the map wrong and for some reason thought the control was before the small reentrant. Stopping there, I turned around, hit the cliff, re-read the map, then went down to the control. | |||||
| 3. | Straight across counting reentrants until the diagonal one. Seeing the thicker trees, I followed the reentrant down looking for a gap as shown on the map. It was indistinct at best. I cut through, turned up the next reentrant and hit the spur. | ||||||
| 4. | +01:30 | Straight across the first road, through the green down to the stream and over to the road. I folllowed the road until the closest bend from the control and went across. Someone followed me. I was disconcerted by my light no longer being able to go from low to either medium or high. I thought it was going to run out. I got drawn to my left by a control that wasn't mine. Not wanting to waste time trying to figure it out, I decided to go on to the road and work back from the bend. The other guy didn't follow me; I hit the control. | |||||
| 5. | +04:00 | Mostly straight across the many reentrants. I marked my location at the fence crossing and was right of the line. Trying to correct, I think I got a bit left. I also forgot the control was on a spur, not a stream bend. When I hit the stream, I was reasonably sure where I was even though it was dry. I cut uphill following it 170m and turned around at the fence before coming back down, reereading the code and finding it. | |||||
| 6. | +18:00 | Though I had an error on #5, I was feeling more confident. I ran off going straight and counting reentrants. I was right on track until the end when I followed a spur down just short of the control. Seeing many people in the area, I circled back away from the control up and down a bit. I decided I needed to relocate so I went south 200m to the fence. By the relationship of the fence to the reentrants, I correctly relocated and followed a reentrant closer to the control. I drifted right and up this time. I felt drawn across a reentrant and up again. A woman there was searching for the same control and asked me what I thought. I said we're too high and went back from where I came, looked across at the next spur and saw some people near the trees on what I guess was the saddle. It was the control. | |||||
| 7. | Another guy took off about when I did. Like earlier in the day, I felt more confident with someone running near. Originally I had thought to be super safe and go around the first big spur. I was encouraged by the other guy to go straight. I got well ahead of him, crossed a ridge, dropped into the correct reentrant and followed it around to the control first. | ||||||
| 8. | Rushing out to loose the guy behind me, I could now suddenly read the reentrants on the run. I went down the reentrant, eventually crossing it and the next two spurs to spike it. | ||||||
| 9. | Initially I went straight but decided it was wiser to angle for the road. I hit the road at the bend and attacked from the trail intersection SW of the control. I spiked it and the other guy from #6 and #7 was nowhere to be seen behind me I suppose. | ||||||
| 10. | I dropped into the reeentrant following it to the road and took trails to the T-intersection SE of the control. I followed another reentrant down to the open field, crossed it and cut up right into the reentrant with the control. Had I not paid attention, I might have been distracted by the others who were continuing on in the field. | ||||||
| 11. | I set a bearing and ran fast figuring the lake would be hard to miss. I climbed a knoll on route and saw a control there. I ran faster, passing a lot of people, eventually hitting the trail and following it a little while before cutting off before the reentrant east of the control. Fortunately, I saw the fence just before the control and spiked it. Some guy was leaving a few seconds before I got there and had been blocking my view of it. | ||||||
| F. | I tried to catch the guy in front of me and gained cutting the distance in half. Part way across the dam, the ups and downs and the hard running earlier caught-up with me. The guy in front of me got to the bridge just before Orlin did. I chased Orlin across gaining only slowly and passing him to the finish. |
Total Time Lost - 00:25:30