Race Evaluation
NEOC Nobscot: Red
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| 1. | Left at the fork, then WNW up the straight trail/stone wall. | ||||||
| 2. | Went west to the trail, ran hard along the trail, then straight up the hill. Ross thought going straight at first would have been faster. Maybe, but I guess the splits disagree. What's up with the double controls, yo? | ||||||
| 3. | +00:15 | Once again, I went north to the trail. Came out too far west, so some slight hesitation making sure I was on the right trail, otherwise pretty fast. Maybe would have been faster to go straight this time. | |||||
| 4. | Took the trail east of the control. Climb was brutal, so slow going uphill. | ||||||
| 5. | Yeah, decided to contour, following the cliffs straight into the control. I doubt I could have been physically better on the steep slope, but maybe eating some climb to avoid the difficult footing would have been worthwhile. Probably could at least have found a slightly flatter part of the slope and got some better running in. | ||||||
| 6. | Straightish along the trails, cut accross at the amphitheatre, maybe better to cut right after the amphitheatre, but I'm not going to worry too much about the micro route choice. | ||||||
| 7. | Went east out to the trail instead of going straight through the valley. Required going through the narrow marsh, which actually was a bit slow. Probably better to go straight this time. | ||||||
| 8. | +00:15 | Thought about going low to a trail, but stayed high, following the cliffs then the wall. A bit hesitant on the wall, since I wasn't reading contours well. | |||||
| 9. | +00:20 | Went too N and not enough E, so came out at the houses on the wall. Ran fast, though. | |||||
| 10. | Just followed trails, going W around the green blob on the hilltop. | ||||||
| 11. | +00:30 | Was able to follow trails most of the way, heading basically SE, cutting across a marsh, then E over the hill, down to the big trail. Went too far along one trail at one point. | |||||
| 12. | +00:20 | Didn't notice how many contours I should drop going into the control (from the trail) so got past a couple cliffs and it didn't look right. Then went a bit further and saw the control down below. | |||||
| 13. | +00:30 | A little hesitant when I hit the trail on the other side of the pond. Also went along a line too far N of the control before noticing the rock features to my right and turning S towards the control. | |||||
| 14. | +00:15 | Went W out to the trail, followed the trail to the stone wall, out to the building. Went a bit too far along the wall. | |||||
| F. | +01:00 | Looked down at my punch card while punching the 14th control, and there was no punch in the 13 box. Checked to make sure I had definitely gone to #13, decided yes, then ran in. All in all a great race, although a lot of trail running and not much fine navigation, I thought. Good confidence booster on the physical front. FWIW, NEOC definitely got my map-copying time wrong, by about 2 minutes. Oh well. |
Total Time Lost - 00:03:25