Race Evaluation
Blue Hills Traverse: Traverse
jjcote
| 1. | Left trail option, and everybody ahead of me (including Ross) seemed to have trouble reading the map, because they stopped partway and I was out front for a while. Looks like the right option was better, though, because quite a few people had gotten there ahead of us. | ||||||
| 2. | Slightly right of the line. | ||||||
| 3. | Contoured down almost to the trail junction, and trails from there. Wheezing while walking up the hill. | ||||||
| 4. | A little right of the line, with Phil and Sam ahead of me and a bunch close behind. We picked up what I guess was the trail, which eventually evaporated, and I headed right into clean woods and hopped onto the larger trail. Big pack at the control. | ||||||
| 5. | Everybody else went back out to the trail, but I just went straight through the nice woods and picked up trails halfway. Found John Hansman at a trail junction looking perplexed, but then he took off and pulled away from me. The big crowd was maybe a bit faster, as I saw them up ahead at the control. | ||||||
| 6. | Confused by the trails coming off of the power line, but it's not like it mattered. Was a smidge to the right, and a bunch of people looked like they were going to cruise right past it, but I looked left, saw it, and cut across their path. | ||||||
| 7. | Missed just a hair to the left — saw the knoll, but didn't think it was the right feature at first. | ||||||
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| 9. | Missed to the left, and turned the wrong way in the reentrant for a few steps, allowing severl people to get ahead. | ||||||
| 10. | Just a hair too far left, but that put me on the wrong trail (didn't seem right), so I just took the trails around on the left, which was maybe just as well. | ||||||
| 11. | Oops. Too far right, obviously not looking at compass, so I was right of the trail I wanted when I crossed the ride. Continued through the woods until I got to the next trai, banged a left and attacked from above. | ||||||
| 12. | Right-hand trail option. | ||||||
| 13. | West to road. | ||||||
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| 16. | A little straighter than the people just ahead of me. | ||||||
| 17. | Screwed up the first part of this — headed N with the intent of taking the rigt-hand side of the road loop, but I misread the map and wound up close to the lake. Just as well, since I wound up going straighter and having less climb. Through the horse barn area, left-hand trail route, gradual pulling away from Pafi, but she caught me at the control. | ||||||
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| 19. | Pretty straight, but when we got close, we found some unmapped bare rock that confused up. There were several other people milling around here, and I spotted a stone wall up ahead. I guess some of them thought it was the second wall, because they were heading back, but I guessed we were too low and headed SW to get to the real clearing. Hooked up with Giovanni here, and Michael Hughes as well. | ||||||
| 20. | The three of us scooted down the hill and put a little distance between up and the others. I had trouble reading the contours in the circle, because they're so faint. | ||||||
| 21. | Somehow got the map and the terrain turned around in my head, and took off following Giovanni on what I believed to be the right-hand route. When we got to a trail junction, it looked completely wrong, and I realized that it was the one S of the control, not the one to the W. Jeez, that was a big goof, although it still resulted in a fine route. | ||||||
| 22. | I intended to run down the trail right of the line, but I was going too fast to read the map accurately, and wound up taking a route that was pretty close to straight. Andrew was hot on my heels, and I didn't want to let him get too close because I figured there was a good chance he could outkick me. Saw Giovanni leaving the control. | ||||||
| 23. | Giovanni ahead, with too much of a lead to be able to chase him down. | ||||||
| F. | After the race was over, I discovered a curious thing: the maps had been inserted into the map case, then the end was folded over and secured with a strip of tape. But the end that was folded over was the closed end. :-) |
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