Race Evaluation
OCIN Flying Pig XV & US ULtralong Champs: Friday Blue
Tundra/Desert
| 1. | I started out breathing 2/1 but quickly corrected into 2/2. | ||||||
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Read map too late Did not read control description +00:10 | I stood for a short bit by the culvert, not seeing it. I guess the problem was mine for not identifying the type and orientation of the feature in advance. | |||||
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Did not check features en route Read map too late Bad distance judgement +00:25 | EChild was breathing down my neck. I went into the woods off the trail too early, before the prominent bend. I then studied the brambles from a distance and decided I was short; got back on the trail. EChild had passed me. | |||||
| 9. | EChild helped my reactive thinking by showing the correct way out of the control. He then took a side trail into the bramble, never to be seen by me on this course. | ||||||
| 10. | "Doggies," I said. The deer scattered. | ||||||
| 11. | The map was a bit off by the control (the gully was more to the E relative to the building in the woods). | ||||||
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| 13. | Just after Control 12, I decided I couldn't keep breathing 2/2 any longer; not enough oxygen; and switched to 2/1. | ||||||
| 14. | Shortly before the control, I heard steps behind me. | ||||||
| 15. | It was Wyatt, who started 3 minutes behind me (the start crew had dallied and let me out a minute late). I had no problem keeping up; however, the anxiety level increased notably. | ||||||
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Bad map reading +00:15 | Wyatt went for the corner of the mapped semi-open, which neither one of us could see on the map; we both had decided it was the mapped white. The control on a tree (veg boundary) wasn't ours. We quickly realized the error. Right after the correction, I started having considerable left-side chest pain, and thought this may be it. I laid off the pace but commanded myself to keep going. | |||||
| 17. | As I jogged on the riverside path, the pain subsided, and by the time I was in the open I felt like chasing Wyatt. | ||||||
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| F. | I jogged down the finish path, mindful of the discomfort. |
Total Time Lost - 00:00:50