Race Evaluation
US Champs: Day 2 Blue
jjcote
| 1. | These are my actual splits from the race, but I have them in as a re-run because I was DSQ for missing control #9. | ||||||
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| 5. | Missed slightly to the right. | ||||||
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| 9. | Everything had been going pretty smoothly up to this point. When I crossed the trail. I thought that it was odd that the trail wasn't on the map, because it looked reasonably distinct (in fact, it was the trail where I had seen a guy with loppers trimming weeds the day before). The problem was that I was looking at the leg from 9 to 10. After crossing the trail, I couldn't get anything to match up. I went by a bunch of water jugs with no control, that I suspect was #4 from the previous day, which would mean that I was within 150 m of the control. I decided to not waste any time, and bail out to the road. Had I decided to bail to the stream, I might have stumbled across the control, but instead I thrashed my way though a bunch of thick stuff. And I never went to #9, but didn't realize it until I downloaded. | ||||||
| 10. | Attacking from the road, I had a sweet route to this control. | ||||||
| 11. | Very vague terrain on the approach, but I spiked this. | ||||||
| 12. | NE to the road, and headed into the woods just after the bend. I had intended to use #3 as an attack point, but I was too far right and lost contact briefly, but I kept going forward, figured it out, and spiked the control. | ||||||
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| 14. | Wil Smith overtook me, and disappeared when I paused to drink. | ||||||
| 15. | Straight to the trail, turned right, cut the corner to the other trail, and attacked down the reentrant. | ||||||
| 16. | Running the broad spur, I was doing great until I was about 80% of the way there and I just spaced out and wasn't sure where I was. I optimistically checked a couple of rootstocks, then saw a side reentrant in the big reentrant on my left, and realized I was directly north of the control. No trouble from there. | ||||||
| 17. | Wyatt overtook me here. | ||||||
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| 19. | Just blasting on compass to the river. Hit the big reentrant and took the trail. | ||||||
| 20. | Mandatory crossing? I didn't know anything about a mandatory crossing. No, I didn't read the meet notes. And the marking on the map was totally inadequate. I hear there were streamers, but they didn't do much for me either. So I just headed along the river, and crosed at a perfectly adequate spot at the bend. So that's a second reason to disqualify me. We could probably come up with a third reason if we tried. | ||||||
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| F. | Not too smooth a job finding the finish. |
Total Time Lost - 00:00:00