Race Evaluation
West Point A-Meet: Middle Red
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| 1. | Foggy, but there were big easy features on this leg. Ran past the control by a few meters and turned around to see it. | ||||||
| 2. | Another runner came in just after me, and I started pushing hard to try and lose him, which took quite a few controls. Only three people had faster splits on this leg (none of them M45s), and only Samantha got me by more than 5 seconds (she was a lot faster). Surprising for me to do so well on an uphill leg. | ||||||
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| 5. | Almost blew this one, unsure of my position left-right, and climbed the hill through the green. When I got to the control, I was honestly worried that it might be #6 until I checked the code. | ||||||
| 6. | Fastest time on this split, trying to shake the other runner. | ||||||
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| 9. | One of the fastest times on this leg as well (only the Saeger sisters were faster, Hill by a lot), and I finally shook my companion. | ||||||
| 10. | A near screw-up: lost precise contact and checked another control on a cliff that I think was less than 100 m away, directly on the line. | ||||||
| 11. | The biggest mistake, but not too costly. Got about 2/3 of the way to the control fine, then lost track of where I was. There was a younger guy there who I thought might be on my course (or at least looking for the same control), but he seemed to start looking around one terrace too soon. I knew I had to drop some more, and I was seeing too many big cliffs. I decided to just head SW until I ran out of cliffs, since the control was supposed to be on the last one. That worked, and I decided that I was at the foot of the cliff that I needed to be on top of. I climbed up and got there just before the younger guy. | ||||||
| 12. | At this point there's a lot of altitude to burn, and I used it to my advantage. I was a tiny bit shaky on this short leg, and I was slightly surprised to see the younger guy get to the control just ahead of me. I kind of suspect that he might have found it when looking for #11 and used it as an attack point, so getting back just meant retracing his steps. After punching, he stopped to look at his map closely, while I... | ||||||
| 13. | ...smoked this leg! Only two people (Alex Bora and Stefan Slutsky) were even within 30 seconds of me. I was fortunate to find the remnants of an ancient road which got me partway through the barberry, and other than that I guess I'm just pretty good at running down rock-strewn slopes. | ||||||
| 14. | On the trail for about 150 m, then straight at the control. | ||||||
| F. | Second fastest time in the chute (among Red runners). This turned out surprisingly well, and it looks like a lot of it was the fact that I was moving really fast at the end. |
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