Race Evaluation
HVO: Harriman: Red
cmorse
| 1. | +00:20 | looking too far out on leg initially - ran straight - hit stream and had to cut back to get to a crossable section. Then white below cliffs, hooking into reentrant, across trail, south of marshy area and straight in. | |||||
| 2. | swing wide left to avoid green and contours, then across the line to swing around hill and come in from the N - clean | ||||||
| 3. | pretty straight other than weaving to find the cleanest line through green - down between the 2 & 3 tag cliffs and straight in. Feeling confident of navigation if not terribly fast | ||||||
| 4. | downhill to trail, trail then west side of marsh in good runnable terrain. Took trail below rocks and yellow, then cut up into gap and along base of cliffs/hill into control. Lots of thick blueberry near the control | ||||||
| 5. | left of line picking route through rocks, a little wide left on plateau below cliffs giving a good look down at circle and boulder was pretty obvious from that vantage point | ||||||
| 6. | +00:20 | almost started heading for 7, was going over lower part of spur and rechecked map and saw 6 up the spur - up a few lines to circle - clean but almost skipped it.. oops.. | |||||
| 7. | N of marsh, a little right on trail around knoll then uphill - sawlong knoll from a distance and keyed right in on large boulder - very clean | ||||||
| 8. | straight through white gap, onto trail, then down in. Flag hidden behind log - was probably 5 feet away and did not see it at first. almost turned away to retrace cliffs. | ||||||
| 9. | +00:30 | up through whitish gap - then fighting laurel up onto hill cleanly, but before heading down into green to look for control, paused to make sure I was in the right spot before headed downhill - about a half minute hesitation to confirm location - which was fine | |||||
| 10. | over hill, through white gap, below cliff, below dam, up through broad reentrant (a highlander '01 control was in here -familiar territory). further up past curved cliff, across the flat and then straight over from top of spur - did not want to have to reclimb if went too far - spike | ||||||
| 11. | ran down far side of reentrant and onto spur, across road and right in - very nice running here - no green!! | ||||||
| 12. | over knoll across parking lot - waved to Peter G enroute to start | ||||||
| F. | finish - a very clean run, no major mistakes, ran most of the runnable terrain - slow in green and on rocky hill sides, but otherwise a great run for me.. |
Total Time Lost - 00:01:10