Race Evaluation
US Long Course Championships: Blue
EWhite
| 1. | Across the marsh - I just love getting my feet wet with 18k to go! Walked the hill - already conserving energy. | ||||||
| 2. | took the trail all the way around avoiding as much climb as possible. | ||||||
| 3. | Headed west to the road and around while the folks with me went straight. I lost a little time but picked my spot to attack #4 and saw how far I was behind the Halden runner and Sergey. Never with anyone for more than a leg after this until just after #18. | ||||||
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| 5. | +07:00 | Planned attack down long north pointing spur. Turned off ridge one spur too early, relocated from circular open marsh. Then blew final approach as I didn't see the low spur between the linear marsh and the control - the woods by the marsh were thick in spots. Wandered around east of the control for awhile. | |||||
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| 7. | +02:30 | Pace brought me up a little short with nothing to correct from. Relocated off large flat hilltop. | |||||
| 8. | +01:00 | A little angry - pushed through the next several controls. Went a little left of line and missed this one by not going to bottom of the reentrant immediately once past rocks. | |||||
| 9. | Best leg all day. Throught the end of the field, past the next vegetation boundary, and through the saddle. Caught a visiting Swede at the control. | ||||||
| 10. | Straight - followed S edge of marsh to clearing where I crossed. Went a little low and R on the last hill. | ||||||
| 11. | Straight. Met Rex at the control. | ||||||
| 12. | Attacked from south branch of reentrant. | ||||||
| 13. | Blasted down into reentrant, attacked from boulder at reentrant junction. | ||||||
| 14. | Lack of fitness starts catching up with me - walked up the ridge to the road junction. | ||||||
| 15. | Went a little too far R and over spur north of control. | ||||||
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| 17. | Walked a couple of times on the road. Cut across to parallel trail and attacked from south edge of light green (small pines), down reentrant and over spur. | ||||||
| 18. | Up to trail junction, then followed line of cliffs around west side of hill, over spur and down to control. | ||||||
| 19. | Just after leaving #18, I was caught by Ben Legg who I thought was several minutes ahead of me. Oh, hell - now I might have to actually push it! | ||||||
| 20. | A little uncertain on approach, slowed to be sure and watched Ben overshoot by one rock outcropping. | ||||||
| 21. | Took off as fast as I could to open some space on Ben. Looked back a couple of times and he wasn't in sight. | ||||||
| 22. | Slogging up last ridge to trail, looked back and there's Ben, 10m behind me! Oh, #@%&! Do I have anything left? | ||||||
| F. | Slow motion sprint... |
Total Time Lost - 00:10:30