Race Evaluation
Western Mass 5-Day: Event 1 - Middle Green X
jima
| 1. | Nice and easy first control | ||||||
| 2. | Taking it a bit careful. A bit right of the line, along the spur, past the contorl on top of the knoll, see a gaggle of folks and in. | ||||||
| 3. | +00:25 | A bit of a crowd, but spreading out. Drifted right, so a bit more up and down than necessary. Reentrant more pronounced than I was looking for. | |||||
| 4. | +00:20 | Started staying high on the left, then realized it was on the opposite side of the reentrant. | |||||
| 5. | Close to bee line. Line of hemlocks was not fun or fast. | ||||||
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| 7. | +00:30 | Skirted the left side of the dark green, hit the trail and had to head down - probably faster to have been more right. Tough slogging up the hill, not as much bounce in my legs as I'd like. | |||||
| 8. | Took longer than I thought it woudl to get to the trail on the line, but dead on. | ||||||
| 9. | +00:10 | Hit the small trail, along it until I could see the bend, then back a couple steps and looked down. Had to head down the hill a bit to see it. | |||||
| 10. | debated just going up the reentrant, but figured it would be faster to climb on the trail. Just left of the line, trail, cut the corner, make sure I'm on the right trail, awfully small rock, but must be it, there's a flag beside it! | ||||||
| 11. | Over 2 trails, see the small reentrant to the left and in. | ||||||
| 12. | Plan was close to bee line. To the trail, cut where it takes a hard left turn, angled a nit too much right across the reentrant. Wanted to hit the trail and go through the narrow dark green to the next path, but was too much right. Rough compass across the broad spur, drifting right so I hit the path S of the junction. Across the rentrant and headed up the hill (steep). Wondering if it might have been faster to do more trails further left or right of the line? | ||||||
| 13. | Small pack - good pacing. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:01:25