Race Evaluation
33rd West Point A Meet: Red Long
jjcote
| 1. | Through the woods, slightly right of the line. Kept good contact most of the way, though I was a little off to the right when I finally got close. | ||||||
| 2. | Straight the whole way. Lucky for Linda Kohn that I showed up or she might have never found the control buried in the weeds. | ||||||
| 3. | Straight, i.e. the high route. | ||||||
| 4. | Got just a bit low at the end, but I made good time getting there, so no big deal. | ||||||
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| 6. | A little right early on where the going was good, then I shifted over closer to the line for the second half, which put me on steep rocky stuff, which was slow. I wasn't quite sure where I was when I got to the end of the steep stuff, and hesitated, poking around a bit, but I guess I didn't lose too much time. | ||||||
| 7. | A little too far right, I guess, and I looked in the right place for the control when I got there, but didn't see the control, so I circled around under the spur to verify that I was in the right place, and saw the control when I came at it from the other direction. SA says this was my biggest time loss. | ||||||
| 8. | Pretty wide to the right, but no trails. I think I could have saved myself some climb by going more to the left, but maybe the vegetation would have been even worse that way. In any case, it looks like I lost time on the leg. | ||||||
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| 10. | Mapped as white woods for the second half of the leg, but it was actually quite thick. | ||||||
| 11. | Closer to the mapped green, maybe even in it, but everything I could see was nice white woods. Made good time on the road, with Mika on my tail. Hesitated in the circle because I saw what looked like a cliff on the map, but I was looking at a building. | ||||||
| 12. | Up the road and through control #15. | ||||||
| 13. | Mika went straighter, but got caught up in unmapped barberry, and I was in front for the rest of the course. I went a little further right, due to misreading the stone walls, but it worked out okay for me. | ||||||
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| 15. | Duh. There's a perfectly good road a few steps away that leads right to the control, but instead I went straight, through the green. That was not a better route. I even missed the trail to the last control and popped out in the field a bit to the right. But Mika chased me instead of taking the road, so I wasn't the only dummy. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:00:00