Race Evaluation

NEOC: Needham Town Forest: Sprint

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2.		Spotted Samantha leaving control.
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7.		After having trailed behind Samantha for a while, maybe closing slowly, I got ahead (by a few steps) at the end when she took the wrong trail.
8.		I went straighter, Samantha took a trail around, and she got away. But she massively overran the control, and I got there well ahead of her.
9.		Oof! Fell on this leg. Saw Samantha (and Scott) coming back to #8.
10.	+01:00	Too far left, and overshot. Stone wall saved me, but I had to go through some greenbriar.
11.	+04:30	This is embarrassing. Got out to the trail, knew where I was, made the left-hand turn, and then for some reason thought I was close to the control, i.e. past the right-hand turn at the second junction. So I looked all over the place about midway between #9 and #10 as all kinds of people went by. Finally went to the large trail, at the junction about 100 m south of the control, and had no further trouble.
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14.	+01:30	Through a little green, then on a great line, and ran right past the control without seeing it. Turned back when I was sure I'd gone too far, ran past it again, and did a lap around the knoll before finally finding it.
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F.

Total Time Lost - 00:07:00