Race Evaluation
NEOC: Great Brook Farm: Red
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| 1. | Obvious route - out on the big trail, cut into the field, along the field trail until the indistinct trail, and in. Clean. | ||||||
| 2. | Straight. I picked up the trail leaving the field as an attack point, and left it immediately. Clean. | ||||||
| 3. | Straight. Spotted my boulder as I was crossing the second trail. A bit of a fight through the vegetation. | ||||||
| 4. | I attacked with compass from the trail bend in the field, read the contours in the field, crossed the stream, and saw the flag. Clean. | ||||||
| 5. | Up the hillside to the optimal trail. I attacked from the bend, checked off the wee hills, and ran down into the reentrant. Saw Phil running on the trail. I had forgotten to grab the 1:4k inset of this area, so I navigated on the 1:10 map. | ||||||
| 6. | +00:15 | Straight; out to the trail, then down it and down into the reentrant. I hesitated for about 15 seconds to verify I was on the right trail and to read the map. | |||||
| 7. | +00:10 | Straight; I ran a bit right to avoid some of the climb, but that was silly. I hit the pond - hill - trail junction as my attack. | |||||
| 8. | +00:10 | Around to the right of the hill, past the spur with "boulder" (like 5 boulders), hit the depression, and ran up to the correct boulder. 10s hesitation in the circle. | |||||
| 9. | +00:20 | Crossed at the dam and got stuck in the vegetation for about 20s. I ran up to the rock wall junction, then contoured over. Clean. | |||||
| 10. | +00:10 | I hesitated reading the detail a bit, but ran straight - hill, hill, rocky hill, low stuff, trail, control. | |||||
| 11. | +00:20 | Bailed down to the road, crossing the trail, but I wasn't sure where I entered the woods relative to the pond. I slowed to piece things together - that I was where I should be, left of the pond on the hill - and marched down to the control. | |||||
| 12. | +00:20 | I didn't have the best plan - I had oversimplified the contours, so I missed to the left and had to circle back around the hill. Easily 20s. | |||||
| 13. | +00:15 | I'm disappointed to have run this so slowly; I took the optimal trail route. I hesitated for perhaps 15s to confirm I was at the correct trail junction before attacking, but was otherwise clean. | |||||
| 14. | Out to the trail, crossed after the stream to second trail, attacked just before the bend and boulder in the lower area, and into the control. Clean. | ||||||
| 15. | +00:10 | Straight. Hesitated just outside of the circle to confirm which hill was mine, but the control came into view. | |||||
| 16. | +01:00 | Ran down to the trail, attacked from the junction, but lost the indistinct trail in the swamp. The moving was slow, but I didn't sink in at all. Eventually, the hill came into view, and I ran up out onto dry land. | |||||
| 17. | +00:15 | Very nearly optimal in the confusing terrain - on the line, across to the isolated hill, then straight across the swamp at about its narrowest point. I decided to go straight rather than running on the trail, losing maybe 15s. | |||||
| 18. | Optimal; right of the marsh on the trail. Slow. | ||||||
| 19. | +00:10 | The obvious route - along the trail to just before the field south of 19, then in. Some hesitation in the circle. | |||||
| 20. | North to the road, past the field, to the N-S trail, attacked from the trail junction east of the control. Clean. | ||||||
| 21. | Trail. | ||||||
| F. | Field. Put on some afterburners. |
Total Time Lost - 00:03:35