Race Evaluation
QOC: Patuxent River Park: Blue
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| 1. | +00:05 | Trail around to clearning into control. Lost few seconds hesitating at clearing. I expected to be able to see the reentrant from the clearing but didn't. | |||||
| 2. |
Bad route choice Bad distance judgement +00:20 | Wanted to go straight skirting big reentrant but got to far left. Decided to cut across big reentrant. | |||||
| 3. |
Underrated difficulty Bad compass work Confused parallel features Bad distance judgement Could not relocate Frustrated +10:00 | Apparently, I ran to far left. Crossed the road to far west. Crossed norhtwest reentrant and ran in circles checking all the reentrants in the area. Relocated on man made features (which are not on the map). There were lots of controls in the area. Finally Randy Hall came running up and pointed out that it was control 14. I was way off. Ran back to # 3. | |||||
| 4. | Down reentrant, Up reentrant on far side. Down hill across stream and long hill side until control | ||||||
| 5. |
Hesitated +00:30 | North up hill to trail. West on trail until close to bend. cut acroo woods, cross stream a little east. Hesitated deciding which hill to climb as there looked like one to east and one to west. Went up correct one. | |||||
| 6. | Straight. | ||||||
| 7. | Straight to road, down trail, down and around reentrants followng it up to control. | ||||||
| 8. |
Did not read control description +00:30 | Down spur, Along stream, up hill to trail. I was low in reentrant and control was much higher than expected. | |||||
| 9. | +01:00 | Dog leg back to trail except I didn't. I just ran off and instead of the trail wen west. By the time I realized what I had done I decided to just keep going. Hit trail and took it around reentrant, cut over to other reentrant and followed it up to control. | |||||
| 10. | Straight. | ||||||
| 11. |
Hesitated +00:30 | Up reentrant, across trail, then pretty much straight. Hit stream at eastern bend. Spent awhile reading map trying to decide where control was. I thought cliff was close side of stream. Finally looked up instead of down and saw control. I was just able to reach control punch from the bottom. | |||||
| 12. | Up to edge of clearing. Remember clearing is yucky so skirt edge until I find a way through. Across clearing, around east pond. Cross stream (Go in up to my waist). Glad that it is a warm day. Now soaking wet. Slow to control. | ||||||
| 13. |
Did not read control description +01:00 | Decided to take high route to avoid green. Go mostly straight. See the reentrant in the green, spot control and see Diana Todd there. Run up to control and it isn't mine. I am sure it is correct reentrant, confused about what to do. Description says bottom of reentrant so continue on down. See other control. I am not happy. | |||||
| 14. | +00:15 | Out to trail. Dianna todd has better approach and hits trail right at bend. I hit trail little left. Take trail around. Having been to this control several times already (while looking for 3) I know more of less exactly where it is. More or less because I went to so many other reentrants there. | |||||
| 15. | Up to trail. Along trail to stream area. Straight to stream area. Keg pointed out to me later that the control description for this was incorrect. | ||||||
| 16. | Stream to trail, to road, to trail. Tough getting from trail to control | ||||||
| 17. |
Read map too late +01:00 | Back to trail, across field, along side of reentrant. Got to low and had to cut back to control. | |||||
| 18. | Been to these pits so many times that could almost do it in my sleep. | ||||||
| 19. |
Bad compass work +01:00 | Got off to right. Unsure which way to go. | |||||
| 20. | up to trail by shelter. | ||||||
| F. | dog leg back to control |
Total Time Lost - 00:16:10