Race Evaluation
Return to the Water Gap Day 1: Blue
Wyatt
| 1. | Fell 3 times on this leg, 1st fall was ~3rd step off trail and smashing my R-knee on a rock. R-knee still hurts (Monday) but doesn't seem like structural damage (yet.) Overall my time was decent today - I was taking agressive (read hilly) routes more on Sat. than on Sunday, where I was, for some reason, much slower. | ||||||
| 2. | Had only GU at # 1, as I wasn't feeling too strong given my 1:06 pm start, after just 2 bagels at 8 am... | ||||||
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| 6. | +01:00 | Stood still about 150 NW of bag for a while trying to figure things out, decided to try up more, as down didn't look right enough. | |||||
| 7. | Exit SE hard up & over hill, down to trail and then hard along the trail and across. I think this was notably better than L-side of marsh, or even a more direct path around R-side of marsh. | ||||||
| 8. | Came in as Vlad was leaving, I drank. | ||||||
| 9. | Fairly straight. Saw Vlad near saddle (well up ahead.) But he shot too far E and I got to 9 before him. | ||||||
| 10. | +01:00 | A lot of investigation 1 rib too far north, but saw small stream and heard big stream and contoured to right spur w/o too much waste. Both Vlad & I lost together here. | |||||
| 11. | Up R-side of gorge, R-side of marsh (Vlad went L.) I managed to beat Vlad here by ~30 sec+, but I drank a lot, and he caught up, and I was too dead to even keep up with him after that... | ||||||
| 12. | +00:30 | Drifted R and Vlad turned and got here first | |||||
| 13. | Trailing Vlad, can't catch up at all. | ||||||
| 14. | Good exit, but body refused direct climb so I went up reentrant South of control for a bit before turning. Heard Vlad. | ||||||
| 15. | Straight, w a little right into groove. Saw Vlad cutting L out of bag (from a distance) as I approached. | ||||||
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| 17. | Through marshy field to streamers just as Vlad ran by down chute. | ||||||
| F. | This was as hard as I could go at that point. Drank lots and ate two apples immediately after finishing.... |
Total Time Lost - 00:02:30