Race Evaluation
U.S. Ski Orienteering Championships: Red Middle Distance
jima
| 1. | Had early start to come back and help. Glad Ernst had the comment about not being disheartened by the thin cover on the way to the first control... Very straight forward. A lot of clutter on the map, although the ski trails did pop out nicely. Woudl suggest hiding many of the irrelevant to ski-o features that would be hidden under the snow. | ||||||
| 2. | Took the left option. Passed Linda Kohn on a narrow part. Trail narrow and uneven, loved it... Exciting downhills. | ||||||
| 3. | 2d left, first right, stay right,m then left, then look for the snowshoe trail. Jumped onto a deer path a few meters short of the snow shoe trail by mistake, doubled back, saw the control and in. | ||||||
| 4. | Back to the trail, nice downhills, skis moving OK. | ||||||
| 5. | Right hand route around the head of the marsh. A few more hills than I woudl have liked, but executed OK. | ||||||
| 6. | Stayed low, then up the 3rd trail. Almost went up the 2d, but was uncertain about climb. Kinda hard to differentiate form lines from contours. Last climb up to control more than contours would suggest. | ||||||
| 7. | Right most route, should have gone past control and approached from above, but took snowshoe trail from 3-way junction and had to climb through brambles. | ||||||
| 8. | Easy | ||||||
| 9. | Back out to trail, then bushwhacked from trail bend. Stayed on N side of marsh to snowshoe trail, then in. Shoud have eitehr stayed on main trail all the way around , or done the double pole on snowshoe trail shorter option. | ||||||
| 10. | Fastest split - double poling on snowshoe trails. Occasional marathon skate kick where possible. | ||||||
| 11. | Out to N, zig-zagged trails down the hill, between marsh and pond past #2, then upper trail. | ||||||
| 12. | +01:00 | Up hill to VAST trail, left then right onto snowshoe trail. Didn't see trail spllit under circle, so missed turn and ended back almost at the VAST trail further down. Circled back. | |||||
| 13. | +02:00 | Dumb route - far left. Too much back and forth. Missed best route of down hill to pond, then left. Hit upper corner of field, decided to cut across. Caught tip and went down partway across, losing another 30 sec. | |||||
| 14. | Around to right on trail. | ||||||
| F. |
Total Time Lost - 00:03:00