Race Evaluation
HVO: Harriman: Day1 - Blue
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| 1. | +02:00 | The plan was to start slow, not make mistakes especially early which is what I have been doing recently. Printing was light on the map and I couldn't find the start triangle. I found number 1 but couldn't find the start triangle. Turns out I was looking at number 17 but the 7 was lost in the rocks. Bad first control. Forced to make a decision without any idea of the map. I saw the trail but it was at the edge of the map and since I have a tendency to run off the map I stayed away with it. So off through the green. Yuck. As usual, I have a tough time in rock like this. I can't tell what is mapped or how the map should look. Where I thought I was wasn't where I was. I went the correct distance but was off to the right. Eventually saw control. | |||||
| 2. | +01:30 | Saw the trail but running was so good I stayed to the left of the rock. Crossed spur to far down and overshot control by 75 meters. Had to bounce back to control. Still moving slow and careful. | |||||
| 3. | To much rock to read so I decide to take the trail. At trail fork I go right. Down reentrant and up to control | ||||||
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| 5. | +00:15 | More or less straight. Hesitated at top of reentrant instead of just plunging in. | |||||
| 6. | +10:00 | Due west to the clear area. Along rocks to the swamp. Cut up from the swamp. I don't think the swamp was mapped accurately. I was bigger than mapped so I cut up a the wrong spot. Then wandered around all the mapped and unmapped rock. Wandered around wondering where it could be. Finally went back down the swamp and ignored it. Read the contours sort of and could see the control. Bummer. Jeff Saeger gets to the control just ahead of me. | |||||
| 7. | Jeff Still just ahead of me. | ||||||
| 8. | Leave Jeff behind. Down to the swamp. Fight my my along the swamp. Up the rentrant, down reentrant to control. | ||||||
| 9. | Wanted to take indistint trail but never saw it. Ended up going along stream to main trail. Up indistinct water by swamps to control. | ||||||
| 10. | Knew where I was (I thought I did). Ended up high and overshot the control by 100m to the north. Saw the stream and cut back. This time low. Jeff comes up again and comes down low where I am. Sandra Zurcher also low and cuts up first to the control. | ||||||
| 11. | +05:00 | Around swamp to the right. Along trail. Take a bearing from the manmade feature which leads me wrong. Should have just followed the contours. See Jeff again. He came around from the right. | |||||
| 12. | Over to road. Green looked icky so followed erin to road/field. Across field, across water (didn't even see it in the glare of the map). | ||||||
| 13. | North to road to avoid green | ||||||
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| 15. | Crossed road. Really tired and don't want to run. I know the control is at the top of the hill but am hesitating looking for any way to not have to climb it. | ||||||
| 16. | +01:30 | Run straight Down around cliff. somehow I walk by the control but don't see it. I am standing on top of cliff and by buddy Jeff and some others come up and go down around the control. How can this be. I was just there. I go back down and there is control hanging behind a tree. Man. | |||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:20:15