Race Evaluation
Flying Pig XI, Day 3: Blue
Tundra/Desert
| 1. | The route will be here. I went wide right. | ||||||
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Bad compass work +00:35 | I went too wide left, saw a control on the hill close to the lake and corrected to the right, a bit too late. | |||||
| 3. | There was a lot of unmapped green. | ||||||
| 4. | I puzzled over the theta loop for a while after leaving #3, thinking cedarcreek had messed it up, but then figured it out. Usually one of the loops returns to the starting control of the bar of the theta, not to the ending control, but this way is also fair. | ||||||
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Bad map reading Confused parallel features +01:25 | I found the black V-pit but somehow lost my direction (the north lines that were not aligned with the map edge may have had something to do with that). I ended up one reentrant to the south. | |||||
| 6. | Took the trail. | ||||||
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Bad map reading +00:45 | I thought I was reading the map pretty well upon approach, and when I crossed over the ridge with the indistinct trails, I saw the reentrant with the depressions to my left and a control near its top and I was oh so confident it was the one reentrant to the north and that I had to continue to the SE. Well, to the SE there was the park boundary, so I returned to the control already spotted and it was mine. | |||||
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| 13. | Took the power line to the pond. | ||||||
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| 16. | I went N two spurs because I remembered, from 1998, the cedar vegetation on the other spurs (the ones on the straighter path to the lake). I took the spur to the road, then the road, then the trail, then crossed over to the boot-shaped lake, took the levee, contoured around the hill, crossed the park road at the parking area and went straight in. I do not know of any better way, and to allocate any more time to route choice seemed counterproductive (sa shows my split to #15 was already pretty slow due to all the planning). Maybe going pretty straight in the beginning (S of the comma lake) was best, but the spur leading to the W from the comma lake, as I recalled from 2001, was pretty green on top, too. | ||||||
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| 19. | I took trails high on the hills. Was this really so bad? | ||||||
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| F. | When I punched the finish unit, Mike was announcing for the awards and I did not hear the beep from the SI over the loudspeaker. I was not sure I had seen the flash, either, as the sun was shining on the unit. I went to download, thinking if I didn't have the finish punch, I'd just go back and punch the finish again. But the download was not ready, so I went to the finish and punched again. When I downloaded, the machine gave me the time from the second finish punch. I'm not sure I ever had the first one, and the download people could not tell me if I did. They didn't want to query the finish unit for an unknown reason. I think we ended up just putting in the time I had in my watch, which was 2–3 seconds too long. |
Total Time Lost - 00:02:45