Race Evaluation
Blue Hills Traverse:
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No attack point Did not plan ahead Did not check features en route Took a chance Ran too fast Read map too late Did not like map Not thinking clearly Followed others Followed by others +00:30 | I just love being in a crowd of top runners, all of whom are standing around baffled. | |||||
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| 3. | a little lower than the crowd | ||||||
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| 5. | right | ||||||
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Ran too fast Bad compass work +01:00 | drifted a little low, headed up when I saw the trail | |||||
| 8. | trail, a few of the people in the crowd turned the wrong way when we hit the reentrant | ||||||
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Bad route choice Tired +01:00 | with Steve Worthington and Clint, follwed the stone wall up, but we were getting tired and walked most of it | |||||
| 11. | Wheee! Most fun of the day. Great running surface, I took a fall, so did Clint, but with all the soft leaves it didn't hurt. Ate a Gu on the trail run. | ||||||
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Took a chance Ran too fast Read map too late +01:30 | Abi and I were a tad too far right, and overshot to the next reentrant -- Tim Parson pointed out our error, and several people got past us. | |||||
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Did not like map Bad compass work +00:15 | Cut off of trail before the last two contours, but it turned out to be pretty thick, and I drifted left -- Peter went to the top, nailed it, and got a few steps ahead. | |||||
| 17. | Might as well just follow Peter. | ||||||
| 18. | Peter and I went right, out to the trail, and I thin we gained quite a bit on some people in the process. | ||||||
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| 20. | With Joe Brautigam and Tim, and Peter a few steps back, and I believe this is where we caught back up to Clint, at the control. | ||||||
| 21. | trail around to the right, Joe gets out of sight | ||||||
| 22. | catch up to Ross Smith | ||||||
| 23. | contoured around and came up by little building | ||||||
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Bad route choice Tired +02:00 | headed more or less due east, but was really beat and walking. Last I saw of Ross, as he went farther left. Decided to eat another Gu. When I got withing sight of the road, I could see Peter already up there, running. Tim and I were together, and I caught occasional glimpses of Peter way up ahead. Tim got ahead on the trail, but hesitated at a junction near the end and I got a few steps up on him. | |||||
| 25. | pretty much straight, moaning, unable to think, feeling really beat, but nailed it. | ||||||
| 26. | same as above, spotted Peter near control. | ||||||
| 27. | to road junction and in on trail, Tim cut the corner but got slowed by the vegetation. Peter looked too hard to catch, especially when I started to cramp badly a few steps before the control. | ||||||
| F. | Just trying to stay ahead of Tim, and desperately running for the picnic table at the finish so I could stretch out the cramps. Good thing the course wasn't 200 m longer! |
Total Time Lost - 00:06:15