Race Evaluation
NEOC: Harold Parker State Forest: Red
PBricker
| 1. | +00:15 | Trail to the right. Slow start since I knew it would be a long outing. Missed a trail junction, but corrected quickly. | |||||
| 2. | Straight, reading map well. | ||||||
| 3. | Was going to go to the road, which might have been a bit faster. But after heading east a ways on the trail, the road no longer made much sense. Worked out OK, came in slightly left of the flag. | ||||||
| 4. | Feet in up to the ankles crossing the green marsh. Otherwise fine. | ||||||
| 5. | No good trail options, so just headed south. Very slow going through the thick veg. Crossed the main trail, and attacked from the pond, drifted a bit right, but seeing the stone wall straightened me back out. | ||||||
| 6. | Caught an unmapped trail mostly heading the right way. Made this a fast leg. | ||||||
| 7. | +02:00 | Trails, no cutting any corners. Missed this a bit to the left and circled up to the knoll to relocate. | |||||
| 8. | +01:30 | Poor route down to the trail which required an unnecessary stream crossing, briefly turned the wrong way on the trail, then a bit off line and unsure where I was heading through the (nice!) technical area towards the control. Fortunately, recognized some features as I was getting close and corrected nicely. | |||||
| 9. | Straight, but got a bit to close to the marsh and slowed by thick veg. | ||||||
| 10. | Trails, bouncing off the road because I missed the little trail, but probably just as fast. | ||||||
| 11. | Road. | ||||||
| 12. | No problem, but really slowing down by now. Hamstrings felt very vulnerable. | ||||||
| 13. | +01:00 | Went a bit too far on the road because the stone wall kept going beyond where mapped. No problem coming back for it. | |||||
| 14. | +00:30 | Cross road, down hill and saw a group including Dave Y. off to my left looking for something. Clue said 3m. boulder, so I wondered why I wasn't seeing it, but I went a few more steps and so a 1m. boulder which was 3m on the other side. | |||||
| 15. | +01:00 | Missed the junction with the trail that goes by the control (was it there?), came back a bit and just headed into the woods, eventually coming across a twisty trail heading in the right direction. | |||||
| 16. | +01:00 | Bad fall on the trail leaving 15, went splat in mud puddle and banged my left upper thigh on a rock. Very slow limping along after that. Brief confusion when I crossed a stream thinking it was the N-S stream when it was an E-W stream before the N-S stream. Really crappy veg on this leg. | |||||
| 17. | Out to the road. No problem, but very slow with my leg hurting. | ||||||
| F. | Parking lot! |
Total Time Lost - 00:07:15