Race Evaluation
NEOC Great Brook Farm: Red
cmorse
| 1. | +00:20 | note: leg lengths,course distance a bit farther than advertised as I measured around uncrossables, I suspect Tim used the OCAD measurement which went across a few black lines. trail to 2nd trail on L, up hill then into woods - a bit right, not much visibility in white woods due to pine saplings | |||||
| 2. | almost straight on the line | ||||||
| 3. | green not too bad - went straight (should have taken trail) then out east end of clearing and up middle trail, attacking from abrubt corner in trail | ||||||
| 4. | +00:20 | had some trouble reading contour detail through the rock but mostly straight, below cliff looking for reentrant. A little slow trying to maintain map contact, but basically clean (time for a visit to the optometrist though) | |||||
| 5. | +00:30 | couldn't make out trails from walls from cliffs - seemed to be more walls than I was seeing on the map (even now) pushed ahead on rough compass looking for bigger reentrant- got there, hesitated when I didn't see appropriate rock, then turned right and headed up to get it | |||||
| 6. | followed trail to L, off the bend, then stayed L of stony ground and up reentrant | ||||||
| 7. | left of line, crossing below dam. Slow going in rocky, marshy ground but navigationally ok. Past small building, then attacked from wall junction | ||||||
| 8. | +00:20 | right of line, picking the best runnability in the green, came out right where I wanted to at the parking area, then trails all the way up - hesitated slightly before the Y in trail as I never saw the stonewall I was looking for | |||||
| 9. | +00:45 | thrashed about in the green headed south, picked up small trail but it didn't jive with what was mapped, seemed to be a LOT more twists etc than I saw on map. So I said the hell with it and just ran S to large trail, crossed marsh and down small trail a ways then across the white with no problems | |||||
| 10. | +00:30 | out to trail, trails along until obvious lollipop in trail, up and over hill and down into reentrant - got pulled R by a large unmapped boulder on N edge of circle, wound up going up the other side of the reentrant a ways, then circled back to boulder in a bit of low visibility pine (mapped white) | |||||
| 11. | +00:35 | not sure what the swamp was going to look like, but no black line so zipped between small marshes and plunged in - no standing water but a lot of spongy sphagnum, once across the visibility and runnability were good, but I was concerned about missing a low hung control in a pit so took it slow trying to stay high - contours didn't feel quite right but eventually go there and found flag | |||||
| 12. | +00:15 | ran the ridgeline eventually picking up trail across swamp - very spongy sphagnum again, but reasonably runnable, turning L when woods looked firm again but drifted slightly L and climbed hill just to N but visibility was good enough to realize that wasn't mine so I turned R before hitting the top and flag visible on the next hilltop over | |||||
| 13. | +00:30 | straight, right past cliff and boulder and right down in about 10m R of control - saw a depression, but no flag so went R instead thinking I saw a depression that direction, realized I was heading too low and came back to see the flag right where I had looked for it in the first place. arghhh | |||||
| 14. | +00:10 | NW to large trail, popped out at a right angle and took about 4-5 steps S before realizing I was doing a 180 and turned around promptly (brain fart), brisk run up trail cutting in just past cliffs and right to it. | |||||
| 15. | +03:30 | I don't think the area W of marsh was field checked. From the moment I left the trail below the marsh, things didn't feel right - the marsh extends a LOT further west than mapped - though it was shoesucking mud rather than standing water with all the dry weather, I would think in normal conditions it would be open water, marsh extend pretty much all the way to the black out of bounds area where I turned N. A bunch of extra stone walls in there including one I feel pretty certain follows the green park boundary symbol. Also some extra intersecting wall segments as well. Floundered for a bit, then decided to head for the E/W wall and find the distinct north wall junction beyond the control and then lo and behold, there it was behind me. But there are also a few other unmapped boulder in there to complicate matters | |||||
| 16. | miffed, I ran straight and hard for the wall junction and right in. | ||||||
| 17. | down to cornfield, around field to R taking main trail all the way (it was about in here I noticed my right shoe was quite loose, but a quick look showed no flying laces and didn't take the time to stop) turned R into the woods when I saw the short fence to the L in the open, straight at it punching right behind Kristen who came in from L | ||||||
| 18. | Having read ahead on the last leg, I knew this was going to be a decision of R or L around the marsh, but Kristen made the decision for me by going L and I followed suit, caught up with her just after entering the green woods but turned uphill at the first trail junction where she either paused or went just beyond so I got ahead of her here. Running as hard as I can on a loose shoe | ||||||
| 19. | along ridgeline, taking small trail R to road, then along road pausing momentarily for traffic, then up the hill with no hesitation or pausing, knowing that there were a couple fast people on my tail now | ||||||
| F. | started to go across field, but then realized the trail around the corn field was firmer and faster and I wouldn't have to negotiate the hedgerow between (not mapped). A fine run (for me) with the only really big error being a map issue, which many others had as well, some losing much more time than I did. Oh yeah, the shoe - as I mentioned in #17, my shoe felt loose but I didn't stop to fix things, kind of kinked my toes to keep it tight (now have a blister on my R big toe, thank you very much). anyway, after finishing I went to retie the shoe and noted that most of the lace was missing entirely - had some lace left in the two lower holes, but everything else must have snagged and ripped right off - I guess its better than a face plant... |
Total Time Lost - 00:07:45