Race Evaluation
NEOC Troll Cup Day 2: Blue
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| 1. | Thought briefly about contouring - opted to go up and over for the clean attack. After hitting it cleanly decided to try an minimize climbing the rest of the day or else I would be hurting bad long before it was over. | ||||||
| 2. | +00:45 | stayed up on spur out of green, got up into green a little high before coming down | |||||
| 3. | +01:30 | down to trail then to junction. Intended to contour around larger hill but wound up pretty much going over and ending up a bit nw of flag, terrain open enough to read contours and realize my error | |||||
| 4. | +06:00 | down to pond, around north side and crossed beaver dam straight through pace counting to each trail crossing until main trail - opted to push through green on the line to pick up zig-zagging mtn bike trail to junction just south of the line. Cleanly up reentrant north of the line but then got caught up in green when I should have known better. Wound up south of control on stone wall quickly relocated but wasted too much time thrashing in laurel and then slowly trying to place myself before hitting stone wall | |||||
| 5. | drop to main trail intending to steer east and take trails as far as I could to pick up time. Reading while running I changed my mind and took trail back down to stream and followed west side of streams/marsh back to major trail, then that trail up to small stream crossing and again followed stream up west side. I could see from tracks that others had gone this way. hit trail and ran around spur and up reentrant/spur to hill. Clean all the way if not terribly fast. no cramps yet, but not running terribly fast. | ||||||
| 6. | opted to push on up the hill and take the butt slide down the north side of rattlesnake rather than go to either side. Cleanly into control from bottom of slope. | ||||||
| 7. | down stream, a few dozen paces east on trail and then up and over hill pace counting the whole way. Hit my pace, turned right and there it was right where it was supposed to be. | ||||||
| 8. | +02:00 | got sucked into an elephant path taking me down the more northern reentrant in which there was a control. So I crossed the brook low and ne of hill and had to climb back to it. Damn those elephant paths. | |||||
| 9. | +12:00 | Blew this big time. To trail, then south of marsh cleanly trying to take a bearing on the more westerly trail junction. Somehow missed the middle trail, hit the main trail and headed straight on a bearing. However I was quite a bit low and overshot into the reentrant beyond, then up to trail and back one reentrant. Went down, saw rock but no flag. Relocate back to trail heading to bend to the east for solid attack - paced back to reentrant, paced down to same rock, this time noting flag tucked low on the uphill side of rock. Double damn | |||||
| 10. | up to trail pace and reentrant counting. Quite hesitant and slow after blowing #9. Down the reentrant very carefully and hit bag cleanly. No errors but slow due to hesitation. | ||||||
| 11. | Slow and careful on the direct line, got onto hill and saw the double tape and the trig marker but did not see flag. Almost turned around to relocate when I was bag about 10m west of marker hiding in the shadow of a tree. | ||||||
| 12. | tired now, somewhat slow up the hill and into the logging crap. Hit it cleanly but it was no fun. I presumed when I mapped this mess that course setters would steer clear of it. I was wrong... | ||||||
| 13. | Straight line to trail junction but too tired to fight the straight line anymore so I took trails around to the right and then in cleanly, but definitely dragging my sorry ass at this point. | ||||||
| F. | Knew I was close so I mustered what energy I had left to run the trails in. Not much left. |
Total Time Lost - 00:22:15