Race Evaluation
DVOA: Harriman A Meet: Red
Nadim
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| 3. | +00:40 | Got past the control and hunted too low by the marsh at first. | |||||
| 4. | +05:00 | Drifted far right to the river and took a while convincing myself I had done that. Even then I wasn't sure where on the river I was. I surmised correctly going up to #5 on the way to #4. | |||||
| 5. | Having been there I was willing to go faster than I otherwise would have. | ||||||
| 6. | +02:15 | I got to the marsh on plan but inexplicable cut right to go up a ridge. After a while I realized it but still was surprised to find myself off by two ridges. | |||||
| 7. | +00:15 | I stayed high using the reentrants to clue me in. Near the end, I let the cliffs push me too far left. I realized this just in time to see Mike Ball going there too. | |||||
| 8. | +12:00 | I paralleled the trail too long, expecting to hit it much sooner. At the trail bend before the burn area I was surprised to see open field where there were white woods--I hadn't had a chance to read the course notes. I started up it, not realizing I had done this earlier in the Highlander the year before. This time, I got stuck in deep ferns that hid holes and fallen logs. After 2 minutes and up the first shelf I turned back. Others had caught up by then. I saw them cut up what turned out to be the good way to go--up the reentrant. I opted to go further up the trail then cut left toward the other trail. I did this poorly such that I hit the next trail not far from Times Sqaure. I came up to the trail crest then cut left toward the control. I didn't read my way across. Near the control I saw one of the guys I'd seen earlier below. He distracted me as I was just above the control. I hit a distinct reentrant just east of the control and didn't stop to read where I was. I went down a bit watching the other guy before stopping. Coming back, Brad W. popped over the hill running strong and steady going down. I heard later that this was his way of clueing me that he'd already hit the control. Eventually I came to that conclusion, wandered a little and found it--ughh. | |||||
| 9. | +08:00 | I charged down the hill well left of the line as Brad and the other guy had done. I realized that I'd have to go down any way to cross one of the streams ahead. I hit the trail a bit far to the left but it was fast getting me past Hogencamp mine and 500m east of the control. Climbing I planned on using a wide multi-contoured reentrant to attack from. I got to it but missed by not reading my way in carefully. I crossed the small stream in an area where it was dry and hit the next that #10 was near before turning back and northward. I tried to relocate on some rocks and got high enough to look across the plain of the top of the mountain. I came down along the correct stream to get there in the end. | |||||
| 10. | I went straight toward the rocks then around them to the left to spike it. | ||||||
| 11. | +00:20 | Going down to the road I passed Mike Ball again and got caught up in the thorns at the end before turning back and left to go around them. From the road I went to the trail and attacked from the bend just past the area the Highlander started in last year. When I hit a cliff, I chose to go around to the left instead of reading the map. I realized it and cut right in the flat area to the control. | |||||
| 12. | I started thinking I would take the trail to the left. The running was easier and pulled me to the right whence I could spy the trail to the right. I went there to the end of the trail and remembered from the Highlander that the running was good all the way to the control. | ||||||
| 13. | Around the green to the left and on the trail. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:28:30