Race Evaluation
NEOC Heart and Troll Revival A-Meet: Green X Day 1
jima
| 1. | +01:15 | Cut up the hill after the stony ground, but wandered a bit left. Hit the trail, went in from the first corner, thinking it was the second one. Saw the reentrant, made it match the subtle one just N of the control, then was confused when there was no flag. Heard some traffic uphill, realized where I was, then slogged up to it, punching just before coach, who started 2 minutes behind me. | |||||
| 2. | Down to the trail, turn right to trail junction, then right in. | ||||||
| 3. | +03:00 | Up onto the ridge - beautiful running. coach pulled ahead of me and was running a bit right of where I was. Saw the top of the rock junk down to the right, then the reentrant. Got pulled up short by more knolss than I was expecting to see and several people wandering around checking all of them out. Got suckered into some of that non-productinve activity for a few minutes, until we wandered into the right section and lucked into it. | |||||
| 4. | Feeling a bit uncertain, but recovered quickly. Trail, cut the corner to the next trail, over the flat section stay on E side of spur, was a bit low, but minimal time lost. | ||||||
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| 6. | Crossed at the bridge on the line, Headed up the hill at an angle. Not real certain how far up I'd gone, hill side in front of me seemed to be falling away and didn't seem to match up to the map. Looked far up to my left rear and saw a control. Not positive it was mine, but made the climb. Mostly slow on this leg. | ||||||
| 7. | Around to the right. Considered going around the left, but it looked like more climb than what I was willing to sign up for at that point. Crossed the trail at the spur, saw the big open area, and got it without any problem. | ||||||
| 8. | Briefly considered going along the trail and attacking from above, but again the climb was the deciding factor. Right of the line, skirting the marshy area, climbed to the saddle, through the cliffs to the next flat spur, broad reentrant, multi-part spur, another reentrant, dot knoll and nailed it. | ||||||
| 9. | Headed ENE down the reentrant, followed below teh rock faces to the intermittent stream, in from the knolls. | ||||||
| 10. | +00:30 | Wanted to skirt the green area, but stayed too high. Hit the dot knoll 2 contours above the control and was confused becasue the ground was falling away too fast and there was no flag. Figured out I was too high, and rushed headlong down the hill and got it. | |||||
| 11. | Again tried to stay high to avoid stuff and overdid it. Crossed the first intermittent stream at the stream junction (Brown control - Olaf Tabur punching in) realized where I was and did OK from there. last climb to the control was a struggle. | ||||||
| 12. | Looked at straight, but too much drop just to have to climb it again. NW along the left side of the spur, just above the steeo stuff, hit the trail, past the flat open area, up and through the saddle and dropped in. | ||||||
| 13. | RIght of the line, over the spur, crossed large, then narrow trail, hit 3d trail just above junction. Quick check to make sure I took the right one, then down. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:04:45