Split Analysis
Hudson Highlander X:
Wyatt
median leg score: 95.9
calculated time lost: 2:49 (+1.2%)
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| # | dist | time | place | delta | score | lost* | pace | dist | time | place | delta | pace | comments | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. | 2100m | 13:42 | 2 | +2 | 0% | 100.1 | 20 | 6:31 | 2100m | 13:42 | 2 | +2 | 0% | 6:31 | ~5th-10th along the trail. Leaders missed the turn and I said, 'trail' or something and Ross cut onto the first left turn right ahead of me. As trail approach the road again and faded, Ross got confused, and turned right. I stopped and figued to turn left as Greg B. yelled 'you got it' or something from the hill behind me. Led on the trail, took a wrong right turn then came back losing a 15 second gap. Stayed on trail longer than others but it turned out to be windy, rocky and narrow. Diagonalled up to 1 just after Greg B. and saw a herd off to my right. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2. | 1250m | 8:20 | 1 | -10 | -2% | 103.0 | 15 | 6:40 | 3350m | 22:02 | 1 | -8 | -1% | 6:34 | Down spur to road. Pass/get passed by Greg B. on road until just before it drops and I head into the forest with Greg right behind me. Basically due W the whole time, reading contours - hestiant on the way down until I noticed it was on the flat and I looked up to see the bag just as Greg B. yelled 'zdees' (here, I think :). | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3. | 300m | ? | -- | -- | -- | 0.0 | -- | -- | 3650m | ? | -- | -- | -- | -- | Had planned my route, keeping spur to my right and hill on left - although edge of top of yellow hill was runnable so stayed there then dropped. Greg B. was behind but he'd dropped out of sight - apparently misreading the control area as a spur. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4. | 775m | 7:37 | -- | -- | -- | 0.0 | -- | -- | 4425m | 29:39 | -- | +2 | 0% | 6:42 | Pretty straight going around marsh to the right and contouring in. Apparently Florin did okay but the next pack followed each other way right. Drank ~5.5 cups, then punched bag and ran, figuring (correctly) that the King-of-the-mountain might count from punch-to-punch. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5. | 790m | 7:57 | 1 | -31 | -6% | 105.9 | 10:03 | 5215m | 37:36 | 1 | -1:08 | -3% | 7:12 | A little right at first, then found broad spur, confirming it by the depression in the flat area. Went left-up to little trail, then up trail a bit before heading straight again. Saw fire break and mini-spur to confirm I was on line. Gu & 2.5 cups of water. Left before seeing anyone (although apparently many people saw me.) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 6. | 785m | 6:06 | 7 | +46 | 14% | 88.5 | 30 | 7:46 | 6000m | 43:42 | 1 | -1:52 | -4% | 7:17 | Ridgeline to left of green marsh, right of ridgeline through pine trees to unmapped road. Major hesitation, but contours matched and I recalled 'new firebreak' words at start, so kept going. Had to check code to see it wasn't on the cliffs. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7. | 400m | 3:47 | 2 | +47 | 26% | 96.6 | 30 | 9:27 | 6400m | 47:29 | 1 | -1:46 | -4% | 7:25 | Exitted on line & hit new road again. Saw others behind near control. Up to hilltop then down bare rock, but missed right a bit standing still figuring things out. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8. | 500m | 4:34 | 4 | +20 | 8% | 95.3 | 15 | 9:08 | 6900m | 52:03 | 1 | -1:26 | -3% | 7:32 | Bashed through on exit but ended up climbing due to downed trees, and had to contour through more cliffs than I should have. Saddle down toward bag with eyes open then worked well... | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9. | 310m | 1:55 | 2 | +14 | 14% | 95.9 | 6:10 | 7210m | 53:58 | 1 | -1:26 | -3% | 7:29 | Straight, aiming right at end to run on edge of (dry?) lake. ~5 cups of water. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 10. | 3700m | 26:39 | 5 | +1:27 | 6% | 96.1 | 45 | 7:12 | 10910m | 1:20:37 | 1 | -31 | -1% | 7:23 | Trail run. Hesitant & got lost at end of white-cross trail, but then hit the next trail on the black&white map and turned right, then north. Greg B. was gaining, but I didn't see him until the water stop. Drank 16 oz. weak Gookinaid, 1 GU, picked up 2 GU's to carry, and then had ~4 cups of water (15 hes., 30 route near last turn - better short-cut available - down spur - if I'd been looking. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11. | 540m | 5:07 | 1 | -1:23 | -21% | 120.1 | 9:28 | 11450m | 1:25:44 | 1 | -5:32 | -6% | 7:29 | (10) Along marsh to indistinct trail then generally up hill and around the cliffy stuff to the left, finding a rock & control in back. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 12. | 295m | ? | -- | -- | -- | 0.0 | -- | -- | 11745m | ? | -- | -- | -- | -- | (11) A little right of line along the fairly broad/open reentrant/marsh. Remembered this exact same cliff from the team trails (approached from the west in that case.) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13. | 540m | ? | -- | -- | -- | 0.0 | -- | -- | 12285m | ? | -- | -- | -- | -- | (12) SE to avoid climb of first edge then weaved E. Down creek to flat area and then climb up creek to 2nd hilltop. A little nervous but found bag way off the back. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14. | 420m | 13:28 | -- | -- | -- | 0.0 | -- | -- | 12705m | 1:39:12 | -- | -7:36 | -7% | 7:48 | Climb, then it'll be easy. Looked back on climb expecting to see Greg B. & thinking he must have made a mistake. From the top, I followed the hilltops on a rough bearing, then went around rocks to the right. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15. | 650m | 5:56 | 3 | +19 | 6% | 97.2 | 20 | 9:07 | 13355m | 1:45:08 | 1 | -7:52 | -7% | 7:52 | Looked like straight would have a lot more climb than if I leaned off to the left. Stopped a few times early as I was unsure of where I was, but better safe than lost. Wasn't quite sure where I was crossing the flattish area, but the hillside SW of 14 was reasonably distinct. Climbed and dropped down to 14. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16. | 915m | 10:30 | 4 | +1:36 | 18% | 91.5 | 1:15 | 11:28 | 14270m | 1:55:38 | 1 | -6:16 | -5% | 8:06 | Knew I had to drop hard, then climb, but still went left on drop and was confused when I hit the trail after climbing, as I imagined I was nearer the line. After ~30+ seconds of standing still on the trail (as some hikers walked by), I figured out what had happened, and a run south on the trail quickly confirmed it at the turn. Didn't read much on trail until I hit the big marsh, then went S of the big hill, and dropped 1.5 contours too far before looping back up to the bag. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17. | 1100m | 14:07 | 6 | +3:33 | 34% | 79.9 | 2:00 | 2:22 | 12:50 | 15370m | 2:09:45 | 1 | -4:08 | -3% | 8:26 | Didn't see the line of white through pine swamp, so went right. Basically east via least resistance to the trail to the SW end of pine swamp Mtn., then up a shelf on the R-side of the mountain. Found it fine, but there was a lot more climb on this route than the left route. (2min). Drank ~ 6 cups, ate 1 GU. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 18. | 2600m | 27:17 | 1 | -2:04 | -7% | 105.2 | 10:29 | 17970m | 2:37:02 | 1 | -7:04 | -4% | 8:44 | Right trails. First along the R-side of the marsh, via Times Square, past the burned area, through the saddle and down the not-so-rocky drop tothe marsh, contoured around back of hill after the marsh, as climbing didn't sound like fun at that point. Not sure if it was better, but I executed it fine. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 19. | 1275m | 13:34 | 1 | -2:26 | -15% | 112.1 | 10:38 | 19245m | 2:50:36 | 1 | -13:25 | -7% | 8:51 | Piecing together trail segments near the line. Dropped all the way to the marsh N of the bag before climbing up to 18, just to be sure where I was. An earlier cut would have saved only about 2 contours, and the trail was notably faster than the forest in that area. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 20. | 1230m | 10:50 | 1 | -26 | -4% | 107.3 | 8:48 | 20475m | 3:01:26 | 1 | -16:52 | -9% | 8:51 | Diagonal/dropping until hitting the marsh, then to road. Felt like I could still run okay on the road - quite surprised that I could move that well that far into this race. Had ~6-7 cups of water, 1 cup of Gookinaid, and a GU. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 21. | 1200m | 7:12 | 1 | -51 | -11% | 114.2 | 6:00 | 21675m | 3:08:38 | 1 | -19:05 | -9% | 8:42 | I thought they said this was 250m from the aid station, so I was a bit disappointed by the distance. But the streamers were nice so it wasn't bad. Running okay. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 22. | 650m | 7:29 | 1 | -21 | -4% | 103.9 | 11:30 | 22325m | 3:16:07 | 1 | -19:28 | -9% | 8:47 | Going back into the forest, and blueberry here, after the last 10-15 minutes of relatively easy running was really hard. Legs weak, but not quite cramping. Walking on anything uphill or rough, so I wouldn't fall too hard when I cramped. But I didn't cramp. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 23. | 555m | ? | -- | -- | -- | 0.0 | -- | -- | 22880m | ? | -- | -- | -- | -- | (21). Walked down to the start. Via the easiest way I could find. Not running at all - too afraid to cramp and fall down the rocks. Jogged on trail, cut up to road, then went straight over. Around looks a lot easier, but I can't imagine it's actually faster. Although I was going really slow uphill and through the blueberry. At least the blueberry was fairly weak and brittle due to the relative drought. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 24. | 380m | 11:46 | -- | -- | -- | 0.0 | -- | -- | 23260m | 3:27:53 | -- | -19:03 | -8% | 8:56 | (22) Tripped over the same piece of wire near the house as I tripped over on the walk to the start. Odd. Reading the map as I went toward 22, I thought the picnic table was lower than the feature, but hey, there was water on that table, and a bag, and that was fine. Drank 2-3 cups. Should've had more but was too tired to drink enough. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 25. | 890m | ? | -- | -- | -- | 0.0 | -- | -- | 24150m | ? | -- | -- | -- | -- | Jogged really slowly around on pavement. Paul said "There's Wyatt" in a way that suggested he'd expected me to come through there first. Which meant I'd likely had a reasonable lead (say 3+ mintues...) at the 2nd 106 crossing (it turned out to be 15 minutes, but I had no idea.) I also knew I was feeling really slow, and that anyone who could even jog reasonably at that point would be catching up. I consoled myself for the inevitability (I felt) of get passed by saying "at least try to win through 23". Along edge of water for quite a while, over one little hill then near 2nd little then through (very narrow) yellow gap near stream, right of rocks, up form-line spur and over to marsh edge. Wow. I won to 23. Let's try 24... | |||||||||||||||||||
| 26. | 440m | 15:27 | -- | -- | -- | 0.0 | 1:00 | -- | -- | 24590m | 3:43:20 | -- | -21:46 | -9% | 9:04 | Jogged out through marsh. As long as it was flat and not rocky, I could still jog slowly. Decided to go over, as it was straigher, so cross reentrant and went up hill - to the powerline? - oops I was going S, not SE. From there a little more climb seemed line plenty and I contoured around at about the right height, over shooting a little, then looking behind that boulder behind/below me. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 27. | 430m | 4:48 | 2 | +15 | 5% | 99.8 | 30 | 11:09 | 25020m | 3:48:08 | 1 | -22:03 | -9% | 9:07 | Wow, still no one in sight. We'll let's try to win through 25. If I can do that, then just maybe... Across, then up, between hilltops, out spur, to right above control, but I wasn't quite sure, so I stood there a bit before checking below the hill in front of me. The bag was there. Phew. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 28. | 425m | 4:14 | 3 | +24 | 10% | 96.6 | 9:57 | 25445m | 3:52:22 | 1 | -22:30 | -9% | 9:07 | Straightish exit. Just as I exited I heard a big branch snap ~100m behind me. Way to loud to be wind branches falling. Damn. Well lets still try to win 26, because if I can, then it's only a parking lot to the finish. Through laurel. Around broad rocky reentrant to the left, looking back and still didn't see anyone. Maybe I can hold them off! Around edge of reentrant than across to hilltop/spur. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 29. | 350m | 2:04 | 6 | +34 | 38% | 74.7 | 27 | 5:54 | 25795m | 3:54:26 | 1 | -22:02 | -9% | 9:05 | Just drop & run, drop & run... Hit parking lot, looking back over my shoulder often, then finally eased up when I couldn't see anyone for 50m or so... Wow. I won the Highlander. Wow. "That was uncomfortable" brought a few laughs to the finish crew... Wow. A very good race on a beautiful day! | |||||||||||||||||||
* red = reported, gray = calculated