Race Evaluation
West Point A Meet Day 2: Red Y2
Nadim
| 1. | +04:30 | I first started on the trail, turned around and came back to the start. I walked much of the way due to the vegetation and climb. I took too long finding the intermittant trail then left it soon from the bend. Once in the circle, it took me too long to figure out I was just a bit south. | |||||
| 2. | +01:15 | At the cliff, I looked across but couldn't see it. After negotiating the cliff, I aimed and got to just south of the pond. Again, in the circle, I couldn't adapt-perhaps the circle hid enough of the contour to keep me too far west. | |||||
| 3. | I chased a woman and man who had left ahead of me. I caught and passed the woman and read the map enough to keep me from chasing the man further. I had to cut right a bit at the end. | ||||||
| 4. | Slogging my way up, I jogged when it leveled some. I recognized the spur features at the top and Mike Ball punching ahead of me reasurred me. | ||||||
| 5. | I went straightish but tracked along the big cliffs on the right. I left a deer trail to stick to the rocks and stayed on them too long. It seemed I should look to my right from my bearing and the slope but I convinced myself to go and look left before it dropped too far. After crossing the reentrant to the correct ridge, I saw it on my right 70m away. | ||||||
| 6. | I expected the green slash to be Cottoneaster thorns so searched the map for a way around. I decided to gut it out on a more direct route to the NE edge of Turkey Hill Pond. As it was, I got through w/o much trouble--I ran around rock spots and in between the fallen trees. At the bottom, I rough read the boulder clusters, then keyed-in on the large boulder E of the control as an attack point. | ||||||
| 7. | I took the road to a bend and was reasurred to find other footsteps leaving the road exactly where I did a the bend at the top of the second hill. Walking most of the way, I read my way up the reentrant and to the cliffs. I passed in between two cliffs and climbed higher. As it steepened, I started to go higher but looking right, I saw a control and figured it could only be ours. As I neared, Erin Olafsen dropped-in behind me with a scream from above where everyone else had been looking. She had grabbed onto some thorns while slipping. | ||||||
| 8. | I went left around the cliff to the road. After dropping below the cliff, I paused expecting to see the control at the marsh below. I didn't but dropped anyway and as I did I could hear Erin chasing from behind. A few steps off the road and I saw it. | ||||||
| 9. | +00:45 | I drank then took off. Back to the road, I stayed on it after the intersection. A woman in red was ahead. At the top, she cut off about where I wanted to. We found a sort of unmapped trail but hunted the west side of the ridge. Erin was right behind. Finally I stopped, read and realized the error, correcting right to the control. | |||||
| 10. | Erin and I ran neck and neck. I pulled up right in front of the pit when Erin said it should be just ahead--two more steps and I saw it. | ||||||
| 11. | Again neck and neck, Erin and I contoured around. At a rocky area I suggested to drop since I could see the flat area ahead and below. I perhaps dropped too much, having to climb a contour over the saddle. I went right around the fallen tree and got there just ahead of Erin. | ||||||
| 12. | Erin commented that it was cruel to make us turn around and head right back up the reentrant--I had to agree but you expect this at West Point. We contoured with me a bit lower than Erin for better running. We spiked it. | ||||||
| 13. | +00:35 | I took off first but was a bit excited this close to the end. I saw a rock wall but couldn't make sense of it an kept going. I turned around and Erin indicated it was back up a contour as she came through. | |||||
| 14. | +00:05 | I chased after Erin. It seemed we were on the correct bearing but we had to cut right to get to the intersection. I cut the distance but punched behind Erin. | |||||
| F. | I tried to catch Erin and made-up some ground but as we neared, she picked-up the pace even to what I could hold then. With all the trouble early, I had no idea that my time was quickest in so far. I know Spike and probably many others would have beat me if it weren't for the misplaced control at #7. |
Total Time Lost - 00:07:10