Race Evaluation
US Champs: Sprint Red
cmorse
| 1. | +00:03 | Headed to right side of fenced in area reading map, then straight into woods on bearing - hesitated a little at the pointy nature of knoll as mapped, then looked up and saw the bag | |||||
| 2. | straight, carefully checking features | ||||||
| 3. | +00:05 | got slightly left of the line and had to correct back near the rootstock, but running smoothly | |||||
| 4. | straight up to hill - only 5 seconds off the fastest split | ||||||
| 5. | +00:40 | went left of line leaving control to avoid some nasty and quickly hit the trail closer to #7 (which was in view) than I was to the trail junction, so opted to just hook around back of #7 and go up hill, but then overcorrected coming back and went south of the dark green patch S of the circle, so basically went in a stupid serpentine S curve. Ran the route well and made no mistakes, but a pretty bogus way to cover such a short trail leg | |||||
| 6. | +00:10 | glancing at the map, was going to go L around the green, but looked up and saw a clear shot through on the ride so took it. But the green extended slightly farther than mapped so had to circle around rootstock CCW to get to bag | |||||
| 7. | already been there, ran the trail down while reading map to #8, basically just stuck out my L hand and punched as I passed by the rootstock, barely breaking stride | ||||||
| 8. | +00:05 | down the trail, but being a depression, didn't want to overrun it so cut into the woods a little before but got shoved L of line by some unmapped greenery, came around from L side to punch | |||||
| 9. | +00:05 | R of line, cross trail, cross reentrant then downhill to the hilltop, hesitating slightly partway there to read the contours and not overshoot | |||||
| 10. | nice leg, contoured R of the line and pretty much paralelled it until I hit the distinct trail bend to the S, then sloped up the hill to the first hilltop - confused momentarily by the single green line on the map, then proceeded to spike the control | ||||||
| 11. | a trail run, reading ahead on #12 | ||||||
| 12. | reading ahead I was tempted to take the road, but when I hit the parking lot I decided I was moving well, but didn't really have any extra speed at the moment, and the straight shot on the hill looked quite doable at my current pace, went L of first small hill then up over distinct spur, came screaming down the hill and saw the control as soon as I broke out of the woods and shortly thereafter spied #13 as well. Others questioned my choice of route on this one, but for me it was a good decision | ||||||
| 13. | Saw it enroute to #12, so sprinted to it. | ||||||
| 14. | +00:08 | around the green to L, then straight across, the black X didnt' register when I was running and I was anticipating the 'ruin' further up the hill so I inspected the concrete chunk before proceeding down to lower ruin | |||||
| 15. | pretty much staying in the woods here (very nice woods BTW) toward the swingset but turning slight R before I got there, then above ditch and popped into field about halfway to the corner then to trail jct and right in. Such nice running here I committed the remaining control codes to memory so as not to have to slow down. | ||||||
| 16. | +00:05 | straight up but was expecting flag in field corner and hesitated to read description (knew the code, not description) before realizing it was in the ditch in the shade | |||||
| 17. | sprinting right on through, pausing just long enough to hear the beep. | ||||||
| 18. | ditto | ||||||
| F. | in the chute. Good enough to take gold in M45 although being the 3rd result posted I kept expecting someone elses result to be inserted before mine, but not today... My first US Championship... so fine... |
Total Time Lost - 00:01:21