Race Evaluation
Sprint Series Final & US Relay Champs: 4 point relay - Leg 3 - Green
cmorse
| 1. | hard to read map in bright glare, so just ran up the hill into the woods to read map. Pushed up the hill, tough climb | ||||||
| 2. | +00:15 | on the line, past stone wall end, stone wall corner then another end and down through #9 for a preview. Then down the prominent reentrant but when I came up to my spur I had a brainfart and started to drop L off the spur to avoid the hemlock crap. Then remembered my control was back up on top of the spur.. Doh!! | |||||
| 3. | +00:10 | up along clean gap just L of the line, stayed L of rocky ground then around and in. Didn't see flag at first and wasn't 100% sure the boulder I saw was big enough to be mapped to hesitated... | |||||
| 4. | L of rocky knoll and straight down, dropped two cadets in here | ||||||
| 5. | straight on the line making sure I stayed above the green just before control | ||||||
| 6. | straight up hill through cliffs to trail, trail to sharp R turn, then straight over the top R of line, past wall corner and aimed straight for the narrow spot between barberry and darker green to R - tore my shorts but didn't lose much time | ||||||
| 7. | straight shot | ||||||
| 8. | +01:00 | didnt' read spur right and left slightly R of line passing below cliffs about 2/3 of the way there. Hestitated as the cliffs looked about right, but the wall/road to my R wasn't right. Spent longer than I should have reading the map and figuring out where I was before hooking L to the correct set of cliffs. | |||||
| 9. | over spur to trail junction. Took trail to avoid crappy rocky hillside. Left trail at wall junction and hooked around to control slow on the uphill but I had done a recon of the control site enroute to #2 so it was clean | ||||||
| 10. | up reentrant L of line past end of wall then down toward field slowing down as I got close to make sure I didn't overshoot my reentrant. | ||||||
| 11. | running hard for the spectators... good split | ||||||
| 12. | +01:00 | knew the exit ahead so ran hard around the corner into the field, then slowed to read map again. Clean around E edge of green into next field, but didn't see the yellow under the control circle so was looking for control on near veg edge, didn't see it so started E and lower, then saw house/road, slowly came back up and realized flag was on veg edge past the yellow gap. Tricky | |||||
| 13. | straight | ||||||
| 14. | straight, going L around thicket | ||||||
| 15. | took the road and in from end of parking area | ||||||
| 16. | pushing as hard as I could | ||||||
| 17. | ditto | ||||||
| F. | the run in.... A very fine run for me, just the hesitation on #8 and #12 costing maybe a couple minutes total |
Total Time Lost - 00:02:25