Race Evaluation
NEOC Spring Rock Festival and Intercollegiates: Red Day 1
PBricker
| 1. | Trail to just past the stone wall. Then straight. | ||||||
| 2. | +00:20 | Right of line, then crossing to left of line to check out a flag on a knoll that I knew was too soon, blowing 20 seconds. Lack of confidence. | |||||
| 3. | A little left of line down through the laurel, then a bit of trail, then around the marsh. | ||||||
| 4. | +01:45 | Ugly. Stopped a bit short (neither feature or flag was visible from 30 meters), was sure I had gone too far, started back towards a knoll with a flag that I knew was too far back, but had to check it out, then I knew which knoll I was on and retraced my steps. (Rocky ground and marsh didn't seem to be mapped right?) | |||||
| 5. | I left the trail near the boulder, crossed stone wall in the middle, to reentrant, to boulder. | ||||||
| 6. | Straight! | ||||||
| 7. | A bit left along the knoll, then corrected right to it. | ||||||
| 8. | +00:20 | Around the marsh to the left, getting one foot soaked. Came in right over the dot knoll ( I thought), but flag was a bit to the left. | |||||
| 9. | Pretty straight. | ||||||
| 10. | +00:40 | Got too far left and almost went on the wrong side of the finger of water. Then went through some thick vegetation and missed a bit left. | |||||
| 11. | Started right of line. Had a bit of trouble making sense of the stone walls, but when I hit the trail, I was dead on. | ||||||
| 12. | Followed the line across the trail, between the marshes, over the stone wall, and nailed it. (But maybe should have gone left more at the start to avoid some climb.) | ||||||
| 13. | Left of line along the stone wall, across the open area, crossing the stream below the damn, and came in a tad right. | ||||||
| 14. | +00:10 | Crossed the stream right of line, then climbed out of the vegetation and parallelled the stream right to it. (But, again, wasted 10 seconds checking out another course's control that I knew wasn't - or shouldn't be - mine.) | |||||
| 15. | I had had enough of these woods, so I went around on the trail. Probably a few seconds slower. | ||||||
| 16. | The huge trash dump and earth bank wasn't on the map. I climbed over it, then angled back down and swung around to the right to the depression. | ||||||
| 17. | +00:45 | Ugly. Plan was just a rough compass bearing to the road or trail, but I got caught up in awful vegetation, which pushed me left of line, then I climbed up, overcompensating, going right of line, then I came in to the trail with the go control fairly close to it, but was confused and briefly turned the wrong way, wasting another 20 seconds before retracing. | |||||
| F. | My split was 5.4, but I think I punched it while on the run coming in. It was probably about 10. |
Total Time Lost - 00:04:00