Race Evaluation
Billygoat: Billygoat XXIX
Wyatt
| 1. | 2nd. About 15 seconds after Ross, who took a better route. Large crowd coming in from the Right as a left the control. Not sure where Andy Hall was (he led on the left route at the end of hte leg.) | ||||||
| 2. | 2nd. Led a train out, a litlte left on road, first one up the hill, but windy so folks caught up. Ross overshot but still as 1st to the bag. | ||||||
| 3. | 2nd. Long leg - led at first, then about 1/2way, fell in behind Nick, micro-optimizing about 15 seconds to keep with him. | ||||||
| 4. | 2nd. Hammer to keep with Nick, attacked it a little more directly w/less climb, stay with him. | ||||||
| 5. | 1st. Nick was drifting right. I drifted left on pupose, saw tower, aimed in, nailed it and got ahead. | ||||||
| 6. | 1st. Around left. Didn't see Nick even though I drank a bunch. | ||||||
| 7. | +00:30 | 1st. Right fork. Dicey approach wobbling left/right. | |||||
| 8. | 1st. Trails out. I think R-fork was better. Saw Nick coming out into the field as I was leaving. | ||||||
| 9. | 1st. Ran hard, aimed downhill, but wasn't far enough ahead to stay out of sight. Nick was closer. | ||||||
| 10. | +01:30 | 2nd. Slammed into a whole bunch of dark-ish medium green on a straight/right route. Risk didn't pay. Saw Nick way ahead near 10 when I was just entering the field. | |||||
| 11. | No one there. Drank quickly - felt like I was nearing the end & couldn't let Nick get away. | ||||||
| 12. | +00:05 | Stayed on trail a bit longer than I should have, but attack was quite clean. | |||||
| 13. | Followed the cracks to exit along reasonable footing, then trail-winding to near island-in-marsh, then up checking contours/cliffs (slow at end for only about 2 minutes of the leg.) | ||||||
| 14. | As I exitted 13, Nick was coming up to it - apparently he'd missed and reattacked. R-Achilles wasn't 100% and with the green I didn' t hammer downhill. Nick caught and passed me here, fast. | ||||||
| 15. | Hammered the trail but Nick was pulling away fast anyway. Only his hesitation leaving the bag kept him in sight. | ||||||
| 16. | Followed Nick directly across the stream, then trail (w/o Nick in sight.) Saw Peter near the bag, who'd already skipped. | ||||||
| 17. | Saw Nick and Peter up ahead on the climb. Nick went R at end, Peter & I went L around, but we all got to the bag in the same order. | ||||||
| 18. | +00:20 | Nick disappeared ahead, I passed Peter at the bridge, and was hesitant, missing a turn, and then following the cliff line too long. | |||||
| 19. | Beautiful forest. Saw Nick exitting 19 as he'd been sloppy on the approach. It was at this point that I realized we'd both decided to skip 20... | ||||||
| 20. | skip | ||||||
| 21. | Saw Nick on/off up ahead, but he saw me approaching 19, and at the dog-leg we chose for 21, so he was pushing too. | ||||||
| 22. | Closing the gap, maybe...? | ||||||
| 23. | Exitting 21 I planned to chase Nick who'd seemed so close on the way up to 21. But he was completely out of sight. Had to vaguely navigate then hit trail/bridge, then just bearing in and pray (take a risk to catch Nick or nail it while he lost a minute.) Just when I was about to panic, the bag appeared. No Nick in sight, hoping he missed it... | ||||||
| 24. | Hammer/contour out to road, then down road, aim based on parking lot shape, then Oh Darn, I see Nick on the way up to 25. | ||||||
| 25. | Pushed hard the rest of the way anyway, trying to close the gap and to maintain any hope that if he'd have any trouble, I'd be there. | ||||||
| F. |
Total Time Lost - 00:02:25