Race Evaluation
Possum Trot Weekend:
Jerritt
| 1. | Middle of pack watching footing. | ||||||
| 2. | Skip. Saw SF, Eric B and David F. heading up the road to the left, made choice for early skip. | ||||||
| 3. | Straight down the road to the feature | ||||||
| 4. | Running with the group. Just trying to keep up | ||||||
| 5. | Ditto | ||||||
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| 10. | Thought about taking trail up and around. Ended up going around spur and up creek bed. | ||||||
| 11. | Followed open area around to feature | ||||||
| 12. | Fun watching Justin come down the hill to 11 as I left. Looked a little like Scooby Doo, skidding. | ||||||
| 13. | Feeling strong, should have taken a better look at 14 and gone south out of map exchange. | ||||||
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Read map too late +02:00 | Looking for skips and reading future legs, missed easy trail junction. | |||||
| 15. | straight past the building. | ||||||
| 16. | down to the road, left past the building and to the control | ||||||
| 17. | +00:10 | followed streambed, then up into the open field and into feature. Missed by a few feet. | |||||
| 18. | straight through the woods. | ||||||
| 19. | back past the shelter and volleyball court, down the small trail, across stream and up to the feature | ||||||
| 20. | Out into the open area, stayed a little higher than the rest of the group . A little longer, but less climb. Followed open area, then down to stream and to the feature | ||||||
| 21. | Open area. Thought about following road south to the parking lot, but rest of the group went north route, so I stayed with them | ||||||
| 22. | Up past the building, followed the open area, then down to the feature | ||||||
| 23. | Skip. This looked like a good choice. I think it was but 25 now looks a little better. | ||||||
| 24. | +00:15 | Straight down the stream, headed up at the junction. Both David and I thoght we might be on top of the rock wall. Flag was immediately behind us | |||||
| 25. | Followed trail up to open area, then pretty close to red-line. Really thought about going around on this one, but it was a long way around | ||||||
| 26. | Up past the water stop, across to the large spur. As I was going into the control, Spike was coing in from the other direction. | ||||||
| 27. | David, Spike and I to 27. Following open area. | ||||||
| 28. | Straight to control | ||||||
| 29. | along red-line. Thinking about the finish. Did I have enough to get by David? | ||||||
| 30. | Answer to above question, NOPE. | ||||||
| F. | Happy to be done. |
Total Time Lost - 00:02:25