Race Evaluation
NEOC: Breakheart Reservation: Red
iansmith
| 1. | Straight, over the hill | ||||||
| 2. | +00:15 | Right of the line, up the spur to the trail. Attacked via the (dry) pond and big boulder. Some confusion in the circle. | |||||
| 3. | Essentially straight. The vegetation was thick on the entire leg, requiring some careful microroute choice. | ||||||
| 4. | +00:35 | Down the hill to the rock wall, then north over the hill just south of the control. I stopped for 35 seconds to retie my left shoe and drink water (I punched twice to measure this interval). | |||||
| 5. | South around the lake. North was clearly faster, flatter, and easier. | ||||||
| 6. | Straight. The cliff/knoll was lower on the hill than I expected. | ||||||
| 7. | +01:00 | Somehow drifted left while climbing the hill and ended up on a pair of cliffs about 100m SW of the control. | |||||
| 8. | Down the spur right of the line. I ran into Katia, but was very tentative. I missed the obvious route choice left of the line, down the reentrant. | ||||||
| 9. | +01:30 | My only real error on the course; I tried to contour around a hill instead of going straight, and got confused by the set of reentrants that confronted me. I was too far to the right of the line (north). | |||||
| 10. | Straight, between the buildings. | ||||||
| 11. | +00:58 | Left of the line to the road; I attacked from the hill just south of the control and the bridge across the stream. I rolled my (right) ankle jumping across some rocks. I also stopped for 58 seconds to retie my right shoe, which I again timed with a double punch. | |||||
| 12. | +01:00 | On trails, though I accidentally overshot my attackpoint and doubled back about 50 meters. Sluggish on the trails. | |||||
| 13. | Straight. | ||||||
| 14. | On the road to the marsh, then straight south. I was moving very gingerly on the road to avoid aggravating my (broken) tibia. | ||||||
| 15. | North of the lake, then straight. I was momentarily confused by the contours, but I was right where I expected to be. Poor visibility of the control in the circle due to vegetation. | ||||||
| 16. | Straight. I ended up atop a 3 meter cliff that cost some time descending. | ||||||
| 17. | Straight across the marsh, though initially caught up in vegetation. | ||||||
| F. | I ran right of the line through some moderate green, then decided to bust my way through an ankle deep marsh to get to the road. I wanted to turn on the afterburners at the end, but I restrained myself in the interest of my leg. |
Total Time Lost - 00:05:18