Race Evaluation
ICO Story-Middle Fork: blue
mikeminium
| 1. | easy navigation, but it was difficult running diagonally down a steep hill with lots of greenbriar & deadfall. My feet kept catching. Control was high, out of the top of the reentrant & I actually wondered if it was really mine until I checked the code. | ||||||
| 2. | fairly fast & fairly direct, no problem. | ||||||
| 3. | probably my fastest leg, climbed to trail, ran trail & fast running down a pretty open ridge to the pines (vegetation boundary). | ||||||
| 4. |
Hesitated +00:10 | doglegged out of 3 back up the hill & down the other side. beginning to lose a little speed... some due to vegetation, but mostly due to lack of physical conditioning. | |||||
| 5. | short leg but uphill & sidehill. I definitely need to do hill & speed work. | ||||||
| 6. | up-down-up. considered the longer, flatter around route, but it would have added a lot of distance, not all on trail. | ||||||
| 7. |
Bad route choice Did not follow plan Tired Not thinking clearly Lacked concentration +01:00 | down-up-down-up. beginning to feel the hills. Probably should have had more breakfast than a yogurt & OJ. Poor decision on route,,, started northeast planning to avoid middle hill, but then went east & pretty direct anyway. | |||||
| 8. |
Tired Not thinking clearly Lacked concentration +01:00 | took the high route, but lost focus & almost took the wrong ridge. On this map, running the twisting ridges can be challenging; you have to stay alert. | |||||
| 9. |
Tired | up-down-up. pretty straight. just tired. lack of water on the course was probably a factor by now too. | |||||
| 10. |
Tired | up to trail, ran trail south then down to creek & followed creek valley. had to climb over some deadfall, but there really wasn't a better way... sidehills here are too steep to move quickly across them. The control was a gem. "Middle of deep reentrant". We're talking extreme-O or commando-O caliber here. | |||||
| 11. |
Tired +00:10 | up to the trail, ran trails... almost missed the one cutoff which was very overgrown & partly blocked off. It looked rough, so I actually ran past it & then cut thru the woods, which probably turned out not to be any faster. | |||||
| F. |
Tired | forced the legs to a final sprint to the finish. |
Total Time Lost - 00:02:20