1. | P | D | P | R | After yesterday, started cautiously, over stonewall, stayed high until end of wall in view, the dropped right in. | ||
2. | P | D | P | R | Trails (pausing to read/verify map at junctions, still hesitant), attack from wall corner, ran up the hill right in on bearing. Nothing 'left' about it... | ||
3. | P | D | P | R | +00:15 | Down trail to junction, pause to read, then pretty much straight from there, came up slightly low and climbed. | |
4. | P | D | P | R | Just R of line to avoid walls | ||
5. | P | D | P | R | Below first cliff, then up through rocks keeping green to L | ||
6. | P | D | P | R | +00:30 | Slightly L of line to get best wall crossings and avoid deadfall, wound up swinging around lower cliff and climbing an extra line | |
7. | P | D | R | +00:30 | Fairly straight, checking features, but somehow wound up on south edge of circle, saw wall end S and cam back | ||
8. | P | D | P | R | +05:00 | Caught Phil at 7, started to execute a main trail option, wasn't energetic enough to close gap and overtake, then elected to go straight instead. Bad move. Slow climbing, blueberry in white woods and got got a bit R of line and slowed by green. Middle half of leg more walking than running... Post mortem review suggests two different routes that likely would have been much faster, both predominantly trails. | |
9. | P | D | P | R | Caught Phil again, went below cliffs and up. | ||
10. | P | D | R | +00:20 | Didn't like the looks of blotchy green on map, or vegetation viewable in that direction, so swung wide L in relatively runnable forest, dropping into rentrant just N of flag, but ground looked like a substantial trail, so assumed I overshot until I noticed Phil come in assumed punch. Later start = major herd path. Doh! | ||
11. | P | D | R | +01:00 | Planned to go L up to bigger trail, but succumbed to train mode and followed Phil and another on the downhill trail to R instead. Realized partway I didn't want to run with them, nor drop that much elevation, so diverged L into woods, regaining upper trail near bend. Gorgeous downhill in fast woods, the between the streams. Spike, should have gone L out of control | ||
12. | P | D | P | R | Short and careful, ahead of Phil for good | ||
13. | P | D | P | R | The trail run, not much left in tank, but put it all out there. Must have sounded like hell, as people were stepping aside to let me past... | ||
F. | P | D | P | R | And down the chute.. |
Total Time Lost - 00:07:35