Race Evaluation
BOK/US Team Umstead 007: Day 2: Red M
Nadim
| 1. | +00:15 | Fairly straight. I went high at the end, then paused before seeing and getting to the last gully. | |||||
| 2. | +00:20 | I aimed-off a bit to the right but pulled-up very early at a gully. | |||||
| 3. | I started straight then realized I wanted to use the roads. I hit too far to the right of the intersection and came back to find Angelica Riley (who started at the same time but on a different course) running up the road too. I passed her going up, cut right at the intersection and followed that road down and up before going in. I saw if far off. Istvan showed me a nicer route, given my mistake in not aiming to the road intersection first. I should have kept straight but used the trail along the stream. Though it winds a bit, it doesn't climb much. I just didn't see the trail and thus it didn't register as an option. | ||||||
| 4. | As I left #3, I saw Angelica heading to it going the other way. I stayed right, having already planned this on the road run to #3. I used the trail but cut left after the closed stairs. | ||||||
| 5. | I was running smooth after the climb and dropped to the lake. I hopped the low guard rail and ran along the lake to spike it. | ||||||
| 6. | I ran up the reentrant and somewhat down the other. I could see the control from across the last reentrant. As I ran, I questioned to myself whether the side reentrant that the control was in was really an reentrant or not. Others reported having seen this control on the ground. | ||||||
| 7. | I ran fairly straight but used the campground to keep me true. I dropped along the left side of the stream to keep out of the downfall. | ||||||
| 8. | I stayed low, then ran up the reentrant a bit toward where #5 was on the Long Sprint on Friday. I got confused at the fields but ran on using my compass bearing. Later I leared of the drafting error which showed the vegetation boundary but not the yellow color for the field that the cabins were in. Eventually, I dropped along a stream to the creek and stayed low until there was a lot of downfall ahead on a steep slope. A younger orienteer had appeared on my right or from behind. I climbed to avoid the mess and he seemed to keep straight. I hit the trail just on the other side of the spur, as it crossed the next reentrant. This didn't lose me much climb. As I climbed the trail ahead, I looked back and saw the younger orienteer bailing out to the route I had chosen. He probably lost about a minute. After reaching the top and leaving from a trail bend. I ran in toward #8. I was hesitant in the tricky terrain and didn't see the giant rock on the map until very near. Once I saw the rock, it wasn't long before I saw the control. | ||||||
| 9. | I wanted to use the intermittant trail to get through the green on the other side of the road. In getting to it I went right of the small rocks before the road but somehow missed thie intermittant trail which Greg Balter later told me was an old ride. I lost a little bit of time crossing some green but ran ahead to the spur and down the side to spike it. | ||||||
| 10. | I thought briefly about going straight but dog-legging back to the road seemed easier and with less climb; perhaps in reality this wasn't true. My route did let me move without hesitation. I reached the road before the first field, the cut left a bit past the trail on the left. It was a great run going down the mostly open spur. I crossed the reentrant to the right of the big saddle on the ridge. From there I descended again and rounded the corner to the large reentrant the the control was off of. I passed Brendan from CSU as he headed the other way, up to the bigger valley. There were a few people converging on the control from the ridge. I ran up to it from below. | ||||||
| 11. | +01:00 | I dog-legged back and didn't see the road run to the left. It just didn't register as a good route but it probably was a decent one. I ran through the big valley. There was quite a bit of deadfall to weave through. I finally left the valley to aim for the road intersection and hit it. I cut off the corner of the next intersection, passed Jon Torrance who was running well up the hill going the other way, the I cut left and in. I spiked the control but had lost my control descriptions from my broken holder. Mentally I thought I was at #12 so I read the code for it off the map. I believed I was in the wrong place so I circled before realizing my error. | |||||
| 12. | Leaving #11, I was hesitant due to not finding my place on the map. I finally did when crossing the road. I stayed high and ran through the campground. | ||||||
| 13. | +00:45 | I ran up straight, then dropped down in-between the two gullies. At the road, I realized the uncrossable creek was ahead. I hadn't read the course notes which told us not to cross it but seeing the break in the black line made me think twice about it. In the end, I went around, having never left the road. An orienteer ahead of me had done the same thing without me noticing until I headed the same way. I spiked the control going this way but should have planned ahead better and gone directly for the bridge. | |||||
| F. | Up the trail. I pushed a bit. Overall, I was rather pleased with the run. Outside of some field checking and the two days of competition preceding this, I had only 2 runs in the preceding month. |
Total Time Lost - 00:02:20