Race Evaluation
Boulder Dash: Blue day 1
randy
| 1. |
Bad compass work Confused parallel features Not thinking clearly +07:00 | Believe I hit the left swamp rather than the right one -- was running too fast and not "in sync". Hit the stream and was confused could not believe I was that far off | |||||
| 2. |
Underrated difficulty +07:00 | Plan was uncrossable swamp, patch of green, then spur with rocks. Hit area of green that seemed much bigger than mapped. Viz was not good and I could not find the spur or the trickle. Must have been elsewhere but had to relocate off swamp after treasure hunting with a few others for a while. Should have bailed sooner. | |||||
| 3. | An easy leg. Wasn't worried about route choice, just confidence. Hit pond then easy contour knolls. | ||||||
| 4. | Again a safe route choice of using the swamp boundries. | ||||||
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| 6. | stream - spur - reentrant - - wall - form reentrant. Finally getting some confidence | ||||||
| 7. | thought about trail but took right of hill route and hit trail around stream junct. Map read the detail pretty well from the trail wall junct | ||||||
| 8. | figured I had to read every feature on these next few legs as losing contact would be fatal. So that's what I did. I'm not sure I've ever done that before on a map like this. I'm not sure I've ever been on a map like this. | ||||||
| 9. | spike | ||||||
| 10. | spike | ||||||
| 11. | spike | ||||||
| 12. | +00:30 | Aimed off for pond figuring I could get more speed if I didn't mapread everything. Even found an old faint unmapped roadbed or the like for better running. Hit the swamp before the pond, got greedy and tried attack from there, but the viz was bad and I lacked confidence so I ended up using the thick green near the pond anyway | |||||
| 13. |
Confused parallel features +02:30 | went to left of swamps, mistook large, yet ordinary rock for mapped house-sized rock and was off. Relocate off stone wall. Should have been paying attention to contours rather than relying on the rock as attack point | |||||
| 14. | +01:00 | safe route choice to cliffs then along ridge | |||||
| 15. |
Bad route choice | cut corner using stream. Unmapped stony ground along stream slowed me down. Should have known as streams are always rocky. Trail to road was surely faster. | |||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:18:00