Race Evaluation
NEOC - Mt. Tom: All 18 - Optimum Route
iansmith
| 1. | Started off fast, through the parking lot. | ||||||
| 2. | +00:30 | Hesitant; drifted too far to the right and attacked from the lower of the two little cliffs. | |||||
| 3. | Sluggish up the hill; around the green, then attacked via the two parallel cliffs. | ||||||
| 4. | +00:15 | Hesitant; my route was fine, if a little low in the target reentrant | |||||
| 5. | +00:15 | Hesitant | |||||
| 6. | Slow moving up the spur. | ||||||
| 7. | Attacked via the spur with cliffs just south of the stream; over the hill. | ||||||
| 8. | Ran into Ross coming from 7 (he went clockwise) and stayed with him into the control. | ||||||
| 9. | To the road, down the reentrant, below the two little cliffs. | ||||||
| 10. | +01:00 | Attacked too low; hit the trail at the big boulder and ran past the bank of cliffs east of the control. | |||||
| 11. | Up the reentrant to the west to the trail. Sluggish moving up the hill. | ||||||
| 12. | Straight. | ||||||
| 13. | I actually went to control 9 (10-9-5); I blasted down the ridge from 10 to the stream, then followed it. Rocky footing, but fast. | ||||||
| 14. | (Control 5) NE to the trail. | ||||||
| 15. | Down the stream. | ||||||
| 16. | +00:30 | Sluggish. | |||||
| 17. | Straight. | ||||||
| 18. | +03:00 | Route via the spur with the rock wall, but failed to go far enough to the east after descending the spur. | |||||
| F. | Sliced my hand open coming from control 1, but ran in. Maybe 15 seconds lost to surprise at the hand. |
Total Time Lost - 00:05:30