Race Evaluation
Bowie: Fran Uhler Natural Area: Red
TimGood
| 1. | A bit tired from 1/2 marathon yesterday but felt ok once I started. Past tennis courts, along clearing and into woods across from building. Forget about 7500 scale and surprised to see road so quickly. Thought I had passed it, but it was right in front of me. | ||||||
| 2. | Around pond to R. Bearing in. | ||||||
| 3. | NE to trail and took it until it faded out. Straight from there. With no rain, the middle of the pond was excellent running. | ||||||
| 4. | +00:40 | Got to far N going around ponds and hit the knolls and depressions 100m N of control. There was another bag there and I think I gave it away to a group coming from the trail. | |||||
| 5. | Out to RaceTrackTrail and cut in from jct. Did not even notice Merkle trail option. | ||||||
| 6. | Straight, coming around/thru green on E side. | ||||||
| 7. | +00:30 | Followed dry stream out toward RTTrail. At clearing near bend got confused and thought I was going to (10). Started to follow stream S, then decided trail was better. Followed stream in from NW. | |||||
| 8. | Straight, but got to close to the marshy stuff. Thought it was supposed to be dry. Some trouble getting through the green at WBandA trail. Attacked from track trail jct. | ||||||
| 9. | Along clearing and cut in where it looked good. | ||||||
| 10. | Along the edge of the Patuxent. | ||||||
| 11. | NW to RTTrail. Cut in at stream crossing. Starting to feel a little tired now. | ||||||
| 12. | Back out to trail and ran until just before trail N of control. Cut corner, ran to river, looked around. | ||||||
| 13. | +00:45 | W to RTTrail, past marsh and headed to (4) as attack point. Missed it from here, getting messed up in the beaver ponds and green and ending up to far SW. | |||||
| 14. | +01:00 | Careless and missed it. Thought I would see it but to far right and almost hit trail. | |||||
| 15. | +00:20 | Straight but drifted L, passing control in clearing. Took the trails to be safe. | |||||
| 16. | +00:30 | NE to trail. Confused when trail was a huge fire road and not a small footpath as mapped. Trail to powerline tower. Stopped again to verify correct location becuase I was in clearing and map said woods. Finally ignored map and just ran in. | |||||
| 17. | +02:00 | Bad route choice. Got on wrong side of one of one of the water fingers and could not cross. Instead of crossing powerline I was approaching RR tracks. Crossed on a log and came to control from E. | |||||
| 18. | +00:20 | Up to trail, bridge to clearing and around green on L. Stopped to look a little early. | |||||
| F. | Trail past control on junk pile, through clearing to road and parking. E side of track. |
Total Time Lost - 00:06:05