Race Evaluation
25th Billygoat:
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| 1. | I was in the back and was quite impressed with the view of all the people scattered along the cliff face. | ||||||
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| 3. | The only advantage of my route choice, following the trail to the left of the marsh, was seeing the lead runners coming the other way. I picked up Nancy Koehler here, who I ran with until 8. | ||||||
| 4. | Would 4 have been the best control to skip? Perhaps. Not many people did. | ||||||
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| 6. | For social reasons, I didn't skip this control. Besides, even though 23 was bound to be fast, I didn't expect to be able to take advantage of it late in the race. Good thing I was with a group, because I was disoriented here. | ||||||
| 7. | Still with a pack leaving 6, we dropped down the cliff east of where the trail went west-east. I went middle while a couple went left and Nancy & a group went right. 2/3 of the way I realized the stone wall would be helpful so I edged right and rejoined the crowd. | ||||||
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| 9. | Everybody else went left (and got lost, so I heard), while I went right - it was clearly shorter, and the navigation was really easy (going fairly straight, following the right side of the SE marsh) I picked up the "kids" (Hillary, Samantha, et al) coming into 9 from the west. | ||||||
| 10. | Oops. We got funneled into the golf course and crossed a green (Don't tell anyone). | ||||||
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| 12. | Leaving 11, the kids went straight down -- I ran to the stone wall corner and used the reentrant. I got to 12 way ahead of the kids. Didn't see them again until much later. | ||||||
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| 16. | Wow. Never expected people would be following me! I led a pack of about 5 to 16. | ||||||
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| 20. | Saw the kids emerging from 18. | ||||||
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| 24. | Followed the southern stone wall segments, avoiding the green. At least 8 people (including the kids) passed me as I was dropping down the steep sides of the control feature trying not to cramp up. | ||||||
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| F. | I finished the same position as last year (79th). Thanks to all involved! |
Total Time Lost - 00:00:00