Race Evaluation
BFLO Camp Schoellkopf: Red
bishop22
| 1. | +00:20 | Got briefly hung up in some green that was unnecessary if I had read the map properly. | |||||
| 2. | +00:35 | Didn't charge up the top of the hill as quick as I should have, since their was no flag in sight - turned out to be the first of 4 flags on the ground. They were set on Thursday and must have blown down in the windstorm they had. Plus lost the time it took to tie the flag back on. | |||||
| 3. | +07:15 | Some very fast terrain running, staying on top, S of the creek. Crossed over when a reentrant led me down to the creek and the "green" on the other side didn't look so bad. Flag was on the ground, partly covered with leaves, so there was much searching before I found it. | |||||
| 4. | Didn't see the path leaving the little clearing on the map, but I cut in a little later and came to it, which helped me thru the patch of green. Then got to do some more high-speed terrain running, since there was a ride behind the control to stop me, but the visibility was great and I could see the broad spur that I had to cross to get to the bag. | ||||||
| 5. | Took the ride to the trail, to the bend. Probably not necessary to avoid the stream when things were so dry. | ||||||
| 6. | +00:30 | Another flag on the ground, but only lost the time to tie it. Also lost time leaving C5 by going ESE rather than S. | |||||
| 7. | +03:00 | Lost some time hung up in the green when I tried to go mostly straight. Bailed to the trail, left it at the bend and hit the little hilltop, but didn't see the flag on the ground. Wandered a bit verifying my location. | |||||
| 8. | Angled on trails to the parking lot, then took an unmapped gap thru to the back of the mini-amphitheater. | ||||||
| 9. | +00:30 | Wasted some time cutting thru the woods N of the pond; should have just gone around on the road to the trail. | |||||
| 10. | Came down to the trail, then right back up building-building-building (my kind of attack). | ||||||
| 11. | +03:20 | Took the shortcut past the little building to the right, but misread the compass and headed S to the wrong building (an open shelter, rather than a real building, often mapped unfilled in Rochester, which would have helped me here). I didn't want to believe I had been at the wrong building, so that compounded the lost time. | |||||
| 12. | Roads, past the start, then crashed thru the woods. Near the clearing, I noticed a small trail (as it my hand-drawn lines had obscured it). | ||||||
| F. | So I took the trail on the way back up. |
Total Time Lost - 00:15:30