Race Evaluation
Hudson Highlander: Highlander
dness
| 1. | Pretty much followed the crowd to water tower, follow pipeline. I crossed to road when close. At end, just went up the nose and basically followed the line. Stopped in the circle -- looked right to see cadets punching. | ||||||
| 2. | up, just behind Rick & Susie | ||||||
| 3. | To right of line, eventually following Rick & Susie up the thick reentrant, around rocks at top to control. | ||||||
| 4. | Started up steep trail, then decided to cut south to trails. Was doubting my decision until I ran into Rick & Susie who had gone higher to pick up the trail. We parted when they followed the trail down the cliff and I cut the corner. Didn't see them for a while. The first person I saw on the trail run was Eddie B, looking good. | ||||||
| 5. | Basically SSE to the trail. Charlie, Christina, Tim G. and I followed them to 5. | ||||||
| 6. | Ugh. Christina & Tim went high, Charlie went low and I followed him. For some reason, when he cut up I didn't like the climb and contoured around to the road. Lost mucho time and saw Rick & Susie at the aid station. | ||||||
| 7. | Last I saw of Rick & Susie was them starting the trail run. I amused myself on the run by guessing Thierry's finishing time and wondering whether I would see him finish. I guessed 2:45. As I was coming down to #7, Rick & Susie were coming up and said I just missed him. Drat. | ||||||
| 8. | Bounced off the round up to watertower, then straight. The whole map seemed Escherish to me -- was I going up the whole loop? | ||||||
| 9. | straight, used rocky hill to guide me to the knoll. | ||||||
| 10. | Not optimal -- contoured around the hill, Saw a big boulder near a nose. Checked it out. Nope. Guessed it was the boulder pair 150m E of the control. Lucky guess. | ||||||
| 11. | Just S of line, following reentrant, then using the cliff across from the control to guide me in. | ||||||
| 12. | Mostly straight, used the green reentrant to put me up on the area. Saw a rock/knoll just in front of me and as I was about to check it out, I saw the flag on something I'm surprised anyone bothered mapping. | ||||||
| 13. | Straight. Tripped & fell on the way (I have *got* to learn how to run & read a map at the same time while on tricky ground.) | ||||||
| 14. | Straight. Didn't notice the water, otherwise I would have partaken. This may have affected me later. | ||||||
| 15. | As I was leaving #14, ran into David Onkst who was going to #12 and had wandered a bit off course. It wen just left of the line through some thick stuff, used the rock face on the other side to guide me in. | ||||||
| 16. | Left of the line, found myself beating through some really thick stuff. Went by the shelter and picked up the trail behind it. Left it after the yellow/gray and followed made my way to the boulder field, where the big ones were easy to spot. | ||||||
| 17. | via #9 | ||||||
| 18. | passed slightly below, hit the next rocky line and climbed up to a big rock just east of it. No joy. Then looked around and saw the flag 25m away. | ||||||
| 19. | Followed power line, staying S of it after junction. | ||||||
| 20. | Jeff S. advised me to avoid the crap on the line and suggested going to the right. So I did, passing by #26 and was wondering where the stone wall near it was until I realized that it was supposed to be a trail. | ||||||
| 21. | Lost mucho time. Not only was I slow, but incompetent. Went around the left of the big hill, then when I hit the rocky ground N of the control I thought the control should have been at the nose. Being confused, I headed N then E to find a trail bend which I thought was the one to the E of the control. Fortunately I met up with Dave & Barb, and Barb knew what she was doing. | ||||||
| 22. | Fairly straightforward. | ||||||
| 23. | Another ugh. N. When I got to the trail I decided to follow it, then cut NW at the top. I saw the bottom of ski lifts and totally misinterpreted where I was and thought I was at the bottom, so I cut SW instead of NW. Saw cadets who informed me they were at the trail junction (triangle). They followed the trial, I tried to follow a bearing to the control (picking up David O again) and found myself by the big reentrant to the W of the control. Fought through brush to control. | ||||||
| 24. | Just to the left of the line (David went higher to the left.) I stepped on a tippy rock that launched me into more rocks. Fortunately my left thigh took the brunt, but I was walking after that. As I was approaching the control, I saw David O come in from the right (wtf?) | ||||||
| 25. | SW to trail, then followed trail around hillside. My intention was to follow the trail most of the way, but when it started going up again, I took a rest, and then changed my plan and went more or less straight from there. | ||||||
| 26. | Since I was going so slow, I decided to see how close I could follow the line. I did pretty well. | ||||||
| F. | A leisurely stroll back. |
Total Time Lost - 00:00:00