Race Evaluation
OOC Wesley Clover Ski-O & Snowshoe-O: Long
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| 1. | I was the only one to snowshoe, not ski. Two of my weakest legs were diagonals across open fields when maybe I should have used pack trails around the square. Powder depth was minimal but still hard work. | ||||||
| 2. | This diagonal across open field was much faster, relatively speaking. | ||||||
| 3. | For the most part, I used skate ski trail. | ||||||
| 4. | Approaching control 4, I finally encountered the many mentioned unmapped trails, leading to great confusion and slipping out of 9th position for good. | ||||||
| 5. | This leg confirms that I need a new and decent compass. My bearing across the middle of the map failed and I had to overrun to main gate on Corkstown to get straight. | ||||||
| 6. | My fastest, a straight line run which skiiers could not do. | ||||||
| 7. | I hesitated to go up cliff. | ||||||
| 8. | Somehow I messed up trail intersections, seeing control 5 before getting right. | ||||||
| 9. | I should have done better than the skiiers on this unmaintained trail but I did not. | ||||||
| 10. | The trail run seemed to take forever. | ||||||
| 11. | Straight run should have been much faster than skiiers but I guess I'd already been out more than an hour, no calories and no hydration. | ||||||
| 12. | This was fast leg, going where skis can't and to a control already passed many times. | ||||||
| 13. | I thought my overland route choice was a good one but slower than all skiiers. | ||||||
| 14. | I followed snowshoe trails overland and eventually went down to untracked trail from P3. I guess I should have used groomed trails as I fell to my final position here. | ||||||
| 15. | Straight run on groomed trail and I did out run two skiiers. | ||||||
| 16. | Though quick leg relative to skiiers, I lost a minute not realizing that control was out north of old railbed. With proper focus, I could have had a very quick leg. | ||||||
| 17. | Quick and easy on groom trail. | ||||||
| 18. | This is where my field crossing strategy really failed but only in retrospect. Perhaps if snow in field had been harder, I would have been correct. It didn't help that I went by 19 on the way to 18 and went through steep ditch just before 18. | ||||||
| 19. | Speed was assisted because I'd already seen this guy. | ||||||
| 20. | I went right passed this thinking there was no SI unit. | ||||||
| F. | Comparing my splits with ski-O legs is not simple. Final leg splits were tweaked by SI guys. |
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