Race Evaluation
OOC Meech Valley: Long advanced
boyle
| 1. | Until I looked over the valley to what must be the first control, I headed off on a trail which would have been far right of control but that trail's not on map. | ||||||
| 2. | The deer flies were so relentless I was already considering packing it in. | ||||||
| 3. | I hesitated far too long at intermediate controls half way to my control. | ||||||
| 4. | WSW to trail, S on trail, W at intersection, count 300 to dry stream bed and up passed unmapped cliffs to the BIG cliff and then look at control card: on top of cliff??? | ||||||
| 5. | I took N bearing and this time hesitated less at unmapped reentrants en route. | ||||||
| 6. | bearing walking | ||||||
| 7. | I used compass again and got nice wet feet walking straight through stream. | ||||||
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| 9. | This was fast forest running down to Spring Lake creek entrance and then back up again. | ||||||
| 10. | More fast forest but still couldn't resist looks at not so big rocks going up the valley to the BIG rock. | ||||||
| 11. | I followed white woods to the trail but the trail itself was slow with rocks and mud until I left trail for boulder, boulder and hill. | ||||||
| 12. | I tried W bearing without detail compass work but I fell S of control had to climb back up. | ||||||
| 13. | This should have been a straightforward trail run but the snowshoe trail died out in summer grass growth. I went up and N too early until I saw Robbie fly by. | ||||||
| 14. | Again the trail going through GREEN seemed to be absorbed by green. I ended up just messing about in a general S direction. | ||||||
| 15. | I thought I could have done this straight field run without compass bearing but reentrants were not visible through tall grasses until after arriving in forested stream bed and then I had to head left. | ||||||
| 16. | WIth no drinking water on course, I had little left for speed on the very straightforward field run. | ||||||
| 17. | Tall grass or not, I still should have run better than 9min/k for final legs. | ||||||
| F. | Strange for me, I went straight through fields rather than bordering roads. |
Total Time Lost - 00:00:00