Race Evaluation
West Point A-Meet: Blue day 1
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| 1. | Boring. | ||||||
| 2. | Boooring. | ||||||
| 3. | Boooooring. | ||||||
| 4. | Booring (this one was a little shorter). | ||||||
| 5. | jeez... | ||||||
| 6. | Straight up through the green, a little right at the top to avoid a couple of lines and have good features to read. | ||||||
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| 8. | Contoured. | ||||||
| 9. | A smidge low coming in, not quite sure what was what, but had no trouble. Passed a guy in here, he was a couple of steps ahead of me into the control. | ||||||
| 10. | Left around the lake, cut some corners. Across the dam in ankle-deep water. A lot of unmapped green going up the last hill. | ||||||
| 11. | +04:00 | Poor execution and bad map reading. Drifted left coming out of the control, and went S of the marsh on the N-S section of the ride. Rugged terrain on the other side, and when I got to the top of the first section of valley (where the indistinct trail ends), I mis interpreted that as being the second section, since what lay above it looked like a nasty marsh. Around to the left looked bad, so I started going around to the right, but it quickly became clear that it was too big to be the marsh shaped like a tooth, and I thought it must be the green marsh. Even though it was pointing the wrong way. So I went back around clockwise, and as I crossed just below the "marsh", I realized that it was really the white woods with a small pond depicted on the map. Straight from there. | |||||
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| 13. | +05:00 | Biggest error of the weekend. Managed to get myself to the circle, but then I wasn't sure which stone dome was which, and I didn't see anything unambiguously recognizable nearby on the map. The map showed a non-bare-rock hill, so that's what I was looking for, but then I looked at the clues and they said bare rock. That confused me even more. Looped back and did my approach again, found a distinctive spur, and read my way in properly the second time. I had been just a bit too far east on the first try. | |||||
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| 16. | A little low exiting the control, wound up down at the ride, and had to climb back up. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:09:00