Race Evaluation
NEOC - Mt. Tom: Red
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| 1. | (couldn't find my split-taking watch. total time for now is an estimate). Wasn't sure how I would do -- hadn't run for a couple of weeks (boy would I pay). First leg went really well -- followed trail by lake then cut up to find saddle W of control, spiked. | ||||||
| 2. | Followed compass, spiked the control -- the wrong control. Figured out where I was, but then proceeded the wrong way for a while before turning around. | ||||||
| 3. | Followed tracks until I saw the knoll just above the control, then went straight in the direction of the control through fresh snow, spiked it. | ||||||
| 4. | Decent leg. Got to the control before I expected. | ||||||
| 5. | Followed reentrant up (going slow, feeling it...) Then briefly got confused by the contours -- thought I was heading for a long reentrant, but it was a spur! D'oh. | ||||||
| 6. | Got to the hill OK, but for some reason thought the control was on the SE corner (sometimes my brain reorients so that it thinks I'm going N even when I'm going another direction). Wandered a little, then headed back to it -- saw Glen T. punching. | ||||||
| 7. | Around R of pond, no problem. | ||||||
| 8. | Poor route choice to right, but found control ok, just did unnecessary side-slope & climb. | ||||||
| 9. | Navigated ok, got to within 20m of rock then took me a few seconds to see it ( it was covered with snow). | ||||||
| 10. | Thought I'd run on a compass bearing, then use the pond to orient myself. I thought I saw a pond, crossed a little reentrant, then found a nice N-S reentrant to follow. Where are the tracks??? Turns out I was high. Don't know what I thought was a pond. Lost a lot of time here. | ||||||
| 11. | N to trail, run it all the way around till stream crossing. In a change of plan, headed up there. Right through the briars! Then straight, no problem since the boulder above the control was visible from a long way off. | ||||||
| 12. | George passed me on this leg. | ||||||
| 13. | Briefly considered going up to the left, which in hindsight would have been far superior, but instead followed George up the reentrant. What was that by the control -- a wasp's nest? | ||||||
| 14. | Not a good day... I miscounted the hillsides I was passing, and went to cross the stream too early. Too wide. Then it dawned on me that there was a trail across the stream, so I backtracked, went N and found it. | ||||||
| 15. | Took a circuitous route, ended up too low, but not too much time lost. | ||||||
| 16. | Thought I'd head E to the flat area first. Somehow didn't quite succeed and had to reorient from the trail jct. Met Tori at the control. | ||||||
| 17. | Retraced my steps to the trail jct, where I followed Tori down the upper trail -- I led her into the nondescript spur. | ||||||
| 18. | Not a very good route choice, but the road was too tempting. But somehow I didn't make it to the road until the stream crossing. Dropped down to the stream a little early (by the big boulder), but figured out where I was. | ||||||
| 19. | Ran across the parking lot. Couldn't avoid getting wet. Treacherous little control location! | ||||||
| F. | Thanks, Phil. Nice day in the woods (as long as you bundle up!) Note to self: Train next week for the NEOC champs! |
Total Time Lost - 00:00:00