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QOC Mason Neck: Blue

Nadim

1. Felt good, recognized the control feature but went around on the wrong side; the right side.
2. Along the right side of the reentrant until it got more shallow. I crossed it to aim off and picket it up before the reentrant ended. The trail on the left might have better.
3. I aimed off to the right a bit and got on the trail. At the trail bend, I crossed and found the other trail at the bend. I was reluctant to trust the trail bend in relation to the rootstock. I was off to the right which is what I was feeling was correct, rather than what the map showed. Fortunately, I was close enough to see the control on my left. I gave it away for another person.
4. I ran strait, marking the first ditch crossing, then the green of the marsh. At some point I thought I was seeing the road so I adjust to the left. The control was slightly on my left at the end.
5. I found myself paralleling the trail when I wanted to just follow the reentrant. I decided to cross it on the trail. I counted reentrants on my left getting there. At the end, it seemed like there were three so I wondered if the control was in the wrong one. As I got to it, Eddie Bergeron had come in behind me.
6. I ran south on bearing and roughly kept track of reentrants on my left while getting to the road. After crossing it, I think I saw the marsh on my right. I also crossed paths with Jon Pifer somewhere near #12. I counted reentrants and knolls while staying on the ridge, then attacked. I was a bit to the right but corrected when I thought I'd gotten high enough.
7. +05:00The marsh looked like better running so I backtracked into it. I wanted to follow the ridge on my left but the vegetation pushed me more to the right. I recall the slope being higher on my right so I dropped to the left. My GPS track doesn't tell the same story. It shows me cutting left as I remember, but coming up short about halfway there. I did a slow stop and start loop figuring things out by the contours.
8. +09:00Going straight, things were matching up to just past halfway. I must have been a little too much to the left and just short because I was seeing reentrants slope away to the north. I backed up thinking I was too far and started thinking I knew where I was but ultimately, I went back to the half way mark and the knoll that I attacked #6 from. After that, I followed the reentrant better to the control.
9. +01:45I held a good bearing but hit the knoll in the right. The features on the map were small. I couldn't tell an elongated knoll from a dot knoll. The elongated one I found was bite enough for a contour and I wasted time checking all sides before correcting.
10. +02:00Out to marsh and the marsh bend before attacking. I couldn't make out the features along the way and hit the border of the wildlife refuge. I turned left from there when right would have taken me to the control. It was just green enough in the area to make it hard to see.
11. Straight, reading the marsh on my left along the way. After missing #10. I ate a Gu and wondered if stopping to clear my head and get some sugar helped me be more accurate.
12. I watched my bearing well but seeing deadfall in one reentrant, I went around to the right. Things stopped matching up briefly so I cut left. After that the contours matched better but it seemed like they could have been sharper here.
13. +02:45I went straight but didn't see the marsh which should have been on my right when leaving #12. Wondering if I had drifted, I did see a reentrant after crossing a bigger one but I didn't see the control. GPS show me pulling up short. Nit seeing it, I backtracked and saw the two ditches. That was enough to get me there but it seemed a long way. Some one was standing in front of the control when I got there so that I had a hard time seeing it.
14. I took off straight then wondered if I should have gone around the green on the right side. I could hear foot steps behind so I kept straight. I followed the green around and remembered a leg through here the year before. The edge was distinct enough at times but near the end it was more sketchy.
15. Going straight I wondered if I should have used the trail on the right. Having to cross the marsh kept me from worrying about it for a while but when I got to the marsh, I wasn't sure how far up it I was. It appeared dry where I crossed so I thought I was too far south. I angled more west and went slow. I saw Tim Good converging from my right. After a few more steps I stopped and saw it to my left. I got there just ahead of Tim who had seen it at about the same time.
16. +01:00Going straight, I couldn't pinpoint where I was as I crossed linear features. I was paralleling a trail at one point. I came to the reentrant system and saw a control on my left. I also saw afterward the the other part of the forked reentrant. I felt the control that I saw was not mine but went there anyway because I hadn't had much confidence in my navigating today. When I checked the code, I backed out and went to the correct fork.
17. +00:45A magnifier would have helped for this one. I was tired and didn't want to cross a lot of reentrants. I'd also forgotten temporarily that they were just 5 ft contours. I went around when going more straight would have probably been better. Once I got to the trail dropping into the reentrants near the control, I was not sure if the control was on a trail or not. I mistook the intermittent stream dashes to be a trail. Checking the description I knew it was going to be off the trail. I crossed the second bridge and went up the spur past the control without finding it. I saw another runner cross my path over to another spur that was to my right and that made sense.
F. Out along the right side of the reentrant. The download station looked out of place to me while still in the woods. It looked like a moon bounce. I was tired, wet but not too cold. My right knee ached a bit.

Total Time Lost - 00:22:15


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