Race Evaluation
HVO A-Meet: Blue, Day 2
jjcote
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| 2. | Right-hand route around the marsh. Managed to jump the stream when I left the road, but a branch plucked my hat off and it landed in the water. | ||||||
| 3. | Almost straight, just avoiding pointless climb. | ||||||
| 4. | Hawked! See my training entry for details. | ||||||
| 5. | Got off a smidge to the left when I got close, backtracked a few steps, and came right down on the control. | ||||||
| 6. | Flat for a bit, then climbed up to the right spot, and might have walked right past the flag, just a few meters to my right, if somebosy hadn't come in right then and punched. | ||||||
| 7. | Contoured most of the way and climbed up at the end. | ||||||
| 8. | CCW around the hill that #7 was on, picked my way past the cliff, then E to the trail, and followed it to the big spur that #8 was on — didn't feel like fighting that vegetation again! | ||||||
| 9. | Just about straight. The patch of laurel just before the control was like a beacon. | ||||||
| 10. | Was hoping to get a glimpse of the "oubliette" pit, which I understand was taped off, but I was too high up the hillside. Overshot a smidge, turned around when I hit the trail. | ||||||
| 11. | A bit to the right of the line. There was a WOC93 control in the reentrant on the S edge of the circle, but I didn't look for remnants of the control stand. | ||||||
| 12. | Got to about the right spot okay, but then there were a whole bunch of little bumps, and I had to check a few of them before finding the flag. | ||||||
| 13. | A little left, up through the saddle, right of the first marsh, left of the second, then started drifting left, but I caught myself and went right up over the yellow hilltop (and just about through somebosy'd campsite). | ||||||
| 14. | The best choice woudl probably have been to go a little left of the line, but that's not what I did. I contoured right of the line, and it was such a joy to run through the area around the AT hut, which is like a picnic grove, that it was totally worth it.Finally climbed over the ridge a little late, and on the attack I was concentrating too hard on navigating by the green rather than reading the contours, and got suckered in by some other boulders that were down the hill a way, and I had to climb back up. | ||||||
| 15. | Above the green, picked the right cliff, but stood on top for a few seconds because I didn't see the flag right away. | ||||||
| 16. | Headed out too far right, closer to E than to N, and I could tell that things didn't look right. I was expecting a low hill up ahead, but I was seeing a big hill, and it had a prominent cliff on it. And the reentrant on the far side of the saddle looked wrong. After covering about a third of the distance, I figured out what was what on the map, turned left, and was fine from there. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:00:00