Race Evaluation
BOK/US Team Umstead 007, Day 1: Long Sprint
Nadim
| 1. | +00:45 | My warm-up consisted of strolling Max from the parking lot to the start and part-way back. Valerie Meyer took pity on my and offered to watch Max while I ran. Peggy was out putting-up controls for the next day. At the start, I had a terrible time reading the map. The purple blended-in to the map for me. I knew where people were going but didn't want to leave until I could see the control. As soon as I did around 30 seconds later, I took off running well and caught an older runner before the field. I missed by going to the cabin one to the left first. | |||||
| 2. | +00:20 | I took off well. I thought I was cutting left a bit to get around some downfall and either over-corrected or just had a bad bearing to begin with. When I reached the road, I knew instantly that I was far to the right. I corrected coming back to the field. | |||||
| 3. | As I left this control, a younger runner who started behind me saw me leaving #3. He had made a similar error but because of me, he was able to correct earlier. I hit #3 pretty well. The 3m contours were confusing me a bit. I hadn't seen any course notes. I was already getting tired approaching #3; a sign of how badly out of shape I'm in. | ||||||
| 4. | +00:40 | I used the road leaving #3 and was inclined to be more to the left. I forced myself back into position. The kid I'd seen while leaving #2 was trying to get ahead of me to my right. I took what I thought was a better line to the left, away from the downfall and somewhat nearer the lake. I might have seen #7 in doing this but didn't check the code. A little further, I got confused and went all the way to #6 since that was on the line from #3 to #4. In doing this, I climbed unnecessarily. Seeing the code at #6, I corrected by crossing the reentrant and using the road to get to the control. | |||||
| 5. | Straight there w/o the road. | ||||||
| 6. | A bit to the left to get around the downfall. I knew what to look for since I'd been there before. | ||||||
| 7. | +00:20 | I had trouble judging distance. I crossed the first gully but wasn't sure about it being a gully since it wasn't that deep. I read the downfall well but was still inclined to stop at the rootstocks to make sure it wasn't on any of them. I can see now after the race that the control was a reentrant but in the field, it didn't seem like there was one there. I almost didn't go to the control because I thought it wasn't mine. Time lost for heistation and checking the rootstocks. | |||||
| 8. | +00:40 | I went fairly straight but was a bit surprised to find myself close to the water at the power lines. I crossed the reentrant before #8 and just ran to the general direction. On the run, I couldn't read that the control was a cliff, nor could I see the orientation. I crossed the cairn and being brain dead, I didn't read the map. Going on, I stumbled into the control based upon the relationship to the reentrant. Just as I did, Samantha Seager caught me. | |||||
| 9. | Samantha lead toward #9. We went straight. | ||||||
| 10. | Samantha took off first but slowed inexplicably. Perhaps she was saving strength for the WRE the next day. I passed and got there first. | ||||||
| 11. | +00:05 | Once across the bridge, I cut back. I hadn't read the map well enough to grasp the details in memory. I pulled up short to check the reentrant right before the control. Samantha passed and got there just before me. | |||||
| 12. | Samantha lead going straight. Another guy was trailing us and started to pass. I would have run past it but Samantha saw the ditch to my left. It wasn't what I was expecting to see at all. The other guy turned much later and fell behind. | ||||||
| F. | Not running too hard and feeling not so good. |
Total Time Lost - 00:02:50