Race Evaluation
2012 North American Orienteering Championships: GreenX Long
jima
| 1. | +00:15 | Really, I have to get my feet wet on the way to the first control?? Angled too steeply up the hill, down along the trail. Cut in too sharply - had planned to go right around the marsh, ended up going left. Hit by stream junction 50 m E of the marsh, figured it out as runner in front of me took off in worng direction. | |||||
| 2. | Back across the wet to the trail. From the corner, along the marsh, cut over just before the waterhole, angled up by the root stock. | ||||||
| 3. | +00:05 | Seemed a bit futher left than I expected. Grateful to other runners... | |||||
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| 5. | Pondered route options. Straight just seemed like there was too much green and it would be a lot of short 100 - 150 m sections strung together. Opted to go far right, back by 3, then 13, just right of the lake, then pick up the trails. Executed that pretty well, a bit slower before the trails than I wanted to be. Headed E on the small trail, decided to stay low along the marshes and cut up, rather than the slightly safer route up the hill on the trail. Executed cleanly, just not that fleet of foot. | ||||||
| 6. | +05:20 | And then major brain cramp #1 - angled back up to the ridge line, but dropped down the other side on an elephant path that I thought would curve along the hillside, but kept dropping. Thick vegetation, so couldn't see much to my left. Saw a reentrant below me, dropped into it, then followed it up, not seeing that it was shaped wrong and not matching compass. Saw a rock or two, thought I might be too high, but it wasn't matching up. Bailed out to the top of the ridge, circled back to a couple of knolls that seemed to match the map and dropped down and saw it. | |||||
| 7. | Pissed. Headed down the hill, thrashing through the junk. Across the wet, andgled over the spur, then up by the rock faces. Thought about going right of the marsh, but the open spur beckoned and went left instead. Over the spur, saw the rocky knollm reentrant, open area, and in. | ||||||
| 8. | +00:15 | Down the hill, across just below the dam, around the knoll and down the reentrant. Read the rock features well, climbed a bit too much, then dropped in from above. Probably faster to have gone a bit left of the line, and stayed lower on the final approach | |||||
| 9. | +00:20 | Contoured. Would have been better to have dropped - much faster running, then a slight climb. | |||||
| 10. | Straight up, passing an Irish guy on the uphill, but he regains time into the control. | ||||||
| 11. | +00:10 | Irish guy not giving up. I head further right, but am too far up the reentrant, and have to cut left. | |||||
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| 13. | +05:30 | Right of the line. Back up the reentrant I'd come down on the way to 8, angle over the ridge and push through some light green. Angle back the other way up the hill - Irish guy taking a more direct approach. Flattens out and start to read the terrain. Broad spur, reentrant, flatter area and another spur, with a semi-clear are just beyond, but no control in the reentrant. A few folks down to the left, lets go see if they are right. Folks punching a control, but it's on a rock feature. Head up at an angle, Irish guy slightly uphill of me, and an M-18? in the mix as well. See an open area or two, but it isn't matching up. Reentrant coming up, but it's kind of big and broad and too many rocks, and why is it turning into a saddle? And is this a root stock?? Dawns on me that Irish guy, just above me, had punched on the fly and kept on "looking" along with me. Back 200+ m, and find it. Not too happy with myself. | |||||
| 14. | Rather than heading back to the saddle I'd just come from, went over the top of the hill, and headed right of the large marsh. Pretty good running. Crossed at the beaver dam at the marsh outlet, then angeld slightly left over the indistinct (but still wet) marsh. Followe dthe path along the foot of the hillside, stone wall and in. | ||||||
| 15. | Along the line, doing the extra climb over the knoll rather than try to figure out if left or right around it would be faster. A few other folks appearing from either side. | ||||||
| F. | Not appreciating the climb towards the finish... A little bit left for the run in, but not a lot. |
Total Time Lost - 00:11:55