Race Evaluation
Georgia Navigator Cup: Day 2 Red
Cristina
| 1. | Pre-race prep not as good today, rushing to help get my mom ready to go and not getting a good warmup or pre-run snack. Ran straight and tried to tick off rootstock patterns, but I'm not sure I really did. Control was right in front of me, though, so maybe I did. | ||||||
| 2. | +00:30 | Strangely I went right of the green stuff on the way to the road... I wasn't paying much attention to my direction, just trying to get to the road. Took the ride down to the big drainage and then up the right reentrant. On top of the ridge would likely have been faster and probably not that hard to execute. I stopped to look at the map a lot more than I should have given how big and obvious the big stream drainage was - the ride seemed to disappear, but who cares? | |||||
| 3. | Around on the trail and then up the reentrant directly. Feeling like I knew what I was doing. | ||||||
| 4. | Hit the big reentrant right at the junction with the big ass boulder so it was a pretty straight forward contour from there. | ||||||
| 5. | This one just seemed sort of silly. Pass one reentrant and hit the next. | ||||||
| 6. | Straight up, looking ahead for the middle tree of three. Went straight down from there, essentially aiming right and then curved left to the bag. | ||||||
| 7. | Dropped down and climb over the ridge to the right of the bottom ruin. Up the reentrant to the bag. | ||||||
| 8. | Along the powerline and then the trail (or what was left of it) until I saw the reentrant short of the control, crossed from there. | ||||||
| 9. | +01:00 | Over the rideg and basically straight down. I saw the bench to my right which seemed to line up with the reentrant in front of it, which seemed "wrong" to me... so I went up the one to the left, spiking the blue map exchange control. Figured out where that was quickly and headed the right way. Saw the bench again and another map glanced revealed that it did, indeed, line up with the right reentrant. Whoops. | |||||
| 10. | Put that first real mistake behind me with this one, just straight across but not too fast - still trying to be careful. | ||||||
| 11. | +02:00 | Stopped to really look for a few seconds, and figured there was no better way than basically straight, so off I went. I was already left as I crossed the first stream just right of the cliff, and must have kept driving left as I hit the big green blob on the hill before the control. Tried to go around for a bit but quickly figured there was more than I realized, so I hacked through. Ack, not fast. Busted out right at the left-most trail intersection and took the trail all the way past the reentrant, cut across to the ride. Then I got to the control location and blew right past it. Stood looking at the pond and all around me for a very long time, started going over the reentrant to the right but quickly ruled it out based on poind placement. Turned back around and saw the rootstock and bag. Argh. | |||||
| 12. | +00:15 | Almost flew all the way down to the creek, fortunately stopping myself just as I could cross over to the higher trail. Would have been faster to cut across the reentrant higher. Trail all the way around. | |||||
| 13. | Paid attention for this one, feeling pretty good mentally, if entirely worn out physically. | ||||||
| 14. | Cut over to the trail right quick and trails all the way. I guess I wanted to make sure I finished without a boom. Tried hard to push, but it was tough. | ||||||
| F. | Really kicked it in today. It worked for me this time. |
Total Time Lost - 00:03:45