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Saturday Feb 4, 2012 #
XC skiing warm up/down 25:00 [1]
Some warm-up, down, skiing over from car, up and down the hill...
Ski-O 40:19 [4] ***
21c
US Champs Middle + WRE
Well, a pretty good race, but had one mistake just at the end that was pretty painful, almost 1.5 minutes. Still 5 minutes back to the winners, or 3.5 without that mistake though, which is just tons. Looking at the splits, I'm just pretty consistently losing time. When I reran the course, and knew where I was going, was pretty similar, so I think it's probably they're just moving way faster on those little trails, not really route choice or the little map hesitations.
1 - Good, big trail til the little one, was slipping on my non-sharp edges rock skis though.
2 - Pretty confident out of 1 down to 2.
3 - About faced and back up to big trail, the right route choice.
4 - Won this split, woo!! Made a good cut after coming out to the big trail
5 - And not good. Intended to cut out quickly to big trail, kinda failed and was confused when I came out, had to figure out why the junction had 4 trails instead of 3, oh, because I'm *there*!
6 - Went around on big trails, maybe a cut would have been faster?
7 - Fine
8 - Hesitant, then saw control on right.
9 - Uphill
10 - Effectively cut down to the center butterfly control
11 - Oooh, heading into the maze, did ok, although was done 45s faster by Anastasia
12 - Very hesitant, I blame not seeing the trail directly under the red line, ever. So nothing made sense, and I decided just to go to the fence corner, ran into control on the way.
13 - Alex in sight! Chasing up the little trail, then too into chasing her to take the cut to 13, bah
14 - Up hill, chasing down Marie-Cat along the way, Alex still ahead....
15 - More or less right on Alex-tails now, she took the smart route (I tried a different one on re-run, which was slower) of little trails more or less direct. She did one different choice along the way and I got ahead.
16 - And now I'm being chased by Alex. Makes me very focused and I definitely speed up too, trying to get away.
17 - We take different choices, mine worked out better, now a German guy ahead.
18 - Hesitant, missed seeing one little trail junction so became scared.
19 - Ug. Painful! Cruised out to big trail, made first junciton just fine, then was planning rest of my route when I came to the next big trial 4 way junction, and I went the wrong way, thinking the most uphill one was the way I wanted to go, actually, I wanted to sail straight through according to plan.... 1 minute 30s lost here? Still wouldn't have been 3rd, but much much closer
20 - Moment of confusion at junction, didn't cut at all
21 - To the finish, more or less, kept focused
Well, a pretty good race, but had one mistake just at the end that was pretty painful, almost 1.5 minutes. Still 5 minutes back to the winners, or 3.5 without that mistake though, which is just tons. Looking at the splits, I'm just pretty consistently losing time. When I reran the course, and knew where I was going, was pretty similar, so I think it's probably they're just moving way faster on those little trails, not really route choice or the little map hesitations.
1 - Good, big trail til the little one, was slipping on my non-sharp edges rock skis though.
2 - Pretty confident out of 1 down to 2.
3 - About faced and back up to big trail, the right route choice.
4 - Won this split, woo!! Made a good cut after coming out to the big trail
5 - And not good. Intended to cut out quickly to big trail, kinda failed and was confused when I came out, had to figure out why the junction had 4 trails instead of 3, oh, because I'm *there*!
6 - Went around on big trails, maybe a cut would have been faster?
7 - Fine
8 - Hesitant, then saw control on right.
9 - Uphill
10 - Effectively cut down to the center butterfly control
11 - Oooh, heading into the maze, did ok, although was done 45s faster by Anastasia
12 - Very hesitant, I blame not seeing the trail directly under the red line, ever. So nothing made sense, and I decided just to go to the fence corner, ran into control on the way.
13 - Alex in sight! Chasing up the little trail, then too into chasing her to take the cut to 13, bah
14 - Up hill, chasing down Marie-Cat along the way, Alex still ahead....
15 - More or less right on Alex-tails now, she took the smart route (I tried a different one on re-run, which was slower) of little trails more or less direct. She did one different choice along the way and I got ahead.
16 - And now I'm being chased by Alex. Makes me very focused and I definitely speed up too, trying to get away.
17 - We take different choices, mine worked out better, now a German guy ahead.
18 - Hesitant, missed seeing one little trail junction so became scared.
19 - Ug. Painful! Cruised out to big trail, made first junciton just fine, then was planning rest of my route when I came to the next big trial 4 way junction, and I went the wrong way, thinking the most uphill one was the way I wanted to go, actually, I wanted to sail straight through according to plan.... 1 minute 30s lost here? Still wouldn't have been 3rd, but much much closer
20 - Moment of confusion at junction, didn't cut at all
21 - To the finish, more or less, kept focused
11 AM
Ski-O 38:51 5.82 mi (6:41 / mi) +119m 6:17 / mi
ahr:164 max:180 21c
And went back out for a re-run. With punching. Wanted to see if I could speed way up knowing where everything is. Turns out, no. The snow was a bit slower for sure, but my times are remarkably even with my first run, except for the original run mistake to 5 and 19 and the rerun mistake (bad route) to 15 and execution to 16.
The fast girls have just got to be doing something faster to move forward on those little trails. Must practice that!
The fast girls have just got to be doing something faster to move forward on those little trails. Must practice that!
2 PM
Ski-O 12:54 [2] 1.26 mi (10:14 / mi) +48m 9:09 / mi
5c
Control pickup!