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Saturday May 9, 2009 #
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weight:136lbs
Finally got around to doing my routes for the Team Trials:
Sprint. Comments: This was pretty close to as good as I could do. It was very easy, surprised me, but then the rocky areas were quite bad. They could have made the course a lot harder by using harder placements but I don't think that would have been better, and probably worse.
Only problem was 3, lost a few seconds, plus a little uncertain coming up the hill to 8.
Middle. Comments: Not a bad run, just no legs and feeling a little insecure at times as there were places where you did not want to miss. Shaky right off the bat, got off course on the way to the first trail, but at least I was sure when I was dropping down to the control. To 4 ended up a contour line too high. To 14, stood still quite a while about 100 meters short, just not reading the map well, finally determined I had to go farther along the ridge before dropping down. The rest was OK.
Long. Comments: Not too much in the way of errors, but there were some. Shaky approaching 1, was lucky to see it. 3 was the worst, figured I'd run down the reasonably clean reentrant and do a left hook over the small spur, but the reentrant was quite junky and I lost track of where I was and cut left too soon, and proably spent 2-3 minutes getting through the manzanita, cussing all the time. And missed 12 a little, did a loop around the rocks before I found the correct cliff. That last one was definitely a case of struggling to read the rock detail on the 1:15,000 map.
As far as routes, hard to compare because everyone else is so much faster. The only places I felt particularly good about my routes was the first part to 3, finding the ride angling down the steep hillside (hard to see on the map), and then to 10, staying high and then coming in at the end through clean forest. The rest was, well, forgettable.
Sprint. Comments: This was pretty close to as good as I could do. It was very easy, surprised me, but then the rocky areas were quite bad. They could have made the course a lot harder by using harder placements but I don't think that would have been better, and probably worse.
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Only problem was 3, lost a few seconds, plus a little uncertain coming up the hill to 8.
Middle. Comments: Not a bad run, just no legs and feeling a little insecure at times as there were places where you did not want to miss. Shaky right off the bat, got off course on the way to the first trail, but at least I was sure when I was dropping down to the control. To 4 ended up a contour line too high. To 14, stood still quite a while about 100 meters short, just not reading the map well, finally determined I had to go farther along the ridge before dropping down. The rest was OK.
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Long. Comments: Not too much in the way of errors, but there were some. Shaky approaching 1, was lucky to see it. 3 was the worst, figured I'd run down the reasonably clean reentrant and do a left hook over the small spur, but the reentrant was quite junky and I lost track of where I was and cut left too soon, and proably spent 2-3 minutes getting through the manzanita, cussing all the time. And missed 12 a little, did a loop around the rocks before I found the correct cliff. That last one was definitely a case of struggling to read the rock detail on the 1:15,000 map.
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As far as routes, hard to compare because everyone else is so much faster. The only places I felt particularly good about my routes was the first part to 3, finding the ride angling down the steep hillside (hard to see on the map), and then to 10, staying high and then coming in at the end through clean forest. The rest was, well, forgettable.
Note
Drove over to Boston to visit with my niece Alex and my brother Michael, up from Texas for the weekend to visit her. Took the T in from Davis Square where she lives to Park Street, then spent a long and very pleasant time walking around, mostly in the North End, also some around Beacon Hill. Once again, too much to eat, but good training for next weekend. Got home just before the storms rolled in.