Race Evaluation
Susquehanna Stumble: Long Stumble
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| 1. | Crossed road, Went straight. I seemed to be the only leader running down the left side of the reentrant. Everyone else was running down the right side. There were 3 punches at the first control. I was the 4th person there. Ben, Greg, Mathias, ahead of me | ||||||
| 2. | Decided to go D, E, C, B, A. Leaders going same way. We were little left had to cross reentrant. I got the benifit if angling to control more than them. Still in good position. | ||||||
| 3. | Mathias running off in wrong direction. I am just behind Ben. We hit control. A lot of people are off to the right. | ||||||
| 4. | Follow Ben to next control. | ||||||
| 5. | Leaving control, Dan Quinn say, "Damn, I dropped my map." He said he was going to follow. I said fine but cautioned that I wasn't going to assist him. Climbed/walked up hill. John Torrence runs up hill and Dan follows him. Greg B. says don't look at map, just go up the hill. Sounds good to me. | ||||||
| 6. | Slow up hill again. People all over but not running very direct to control so I make up ground. | ||||||
| 7. | Mathias goes running off to the right and John Torrence follows. Greg and I take more direct route. Apparently we also go to far right and went past control to next ridge. Lost time going back to control. Everyone caught us. | ||||||
| 8. | Follow crowd to 8. | ||||||
| 9. | I start of to the next window getting confused with all the lines. Everyone else runing funny direction. I correct to match everyone else. I am confused why the line bends. Are we required to cross the road at that spot? orienteering roughly to make sure we are on line. We seem to be ok, There is the control. follow line of people into control. Oh no it isn't ours. Moments panic, then we run on to correct control. | ||||||
| 10. | Leaders drop low, I stay high. I decide to go I,H,F,G. Do the climb early and long run last. No one ahead of me. I miscount reentrants. Pass by Tim Good, | ||||||
| 11. | No one ahead of me. I miscount reentrants. Pass by Tim Good, Dan Quinn, John Torrence looking high for H. Unfortunately, they were right and I was wrong. I go onto F then have to back to H. | ||||||
| 12. | Back to H. Lots of extra climb. Punch right behind Eddie. | ||||||
| 13. | On to G. Screw up again and run down wrong stream. See John Torrance and assume he is wrong. I am wrong again. | ||||||
| 14. | See David Onkst on my way out to the trail. Trail to junk pile and up to control. See Mike Ball and a lot of others screwing up 9 just like we did. Slow to 14 because I didn't look at description to see looking for stream bend. Get there and Tim Good is just leaving. Dan Walker is drinking and not in any hurry. | ||||||
| 15. | Nadim, Tim and few other just ahead. Go J,K,L so can take most of climb all at once. Gimmee controls no problems. Catch Tim. | ||||||
| 16. | Gimme control | ||||||
| 17. | Gimme Control | ||||||
| 18. | Runn off in wrong direction following Tim. What am I thinking. Where did Nadim go??? Finally cut back to trail and without thinking run all the down to the end and then have to climb back up. Nadim is just punching as I start to climb. | ||||||
| 19. | Straight ish. slow going up the hill. Tim is still just behind me. | ||||||
| 20. | In to map exchange. Just run in that direction. kept expecting to be able to see people but couldn't. See Jon Torrance leaving area. | ||||||
| 21. | Drank couple cups of gookingade, 10 oz of gatorade, trying to open power bar when tim Leaves. Leave me behind, I think not! Take a huge chunk of powerbar and head off after Tim. Chewing my power bar, I hope there is water not to far into controls. | ||||||
| 22. | Tim says he is going to go slow until liquids settle. Ok with me. Hit trail right at loop bend. Take trail to junction. | ||||||
| 23. | Decide on M,N,O. Tim following right behind me. | ||||||
| 24. | Tim following right behind me. | ||||||
| 25. | Tim following right behind me. | ||||||
| 26. | Tim following right behind me.Take trail around. We see glimpses of red ahead of us. | ||||||
| 27. | Decide to go P,Q,R,S. On the way to "P", I stop to pee. I tell Tim I am stopping to "pee". Tim pulls up, looks at his map and says we aren't near "P" yet. Looks over then sees me peeing. Lightbulb goes off and Tim understands what I said :). We were to far east. Tim see control. We got a little lucky. | ||||||
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| 31. | Catch up to guy in Red. He looks beat. | ||||||
| 32. | T,V,W,U, Tim and I get ahead of guy in red.. We are slow on uphills. | ||||||
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| 36. | We are a little off to right. | ||||||
| 37. | I decide to avoid climb by going straight. Tim and guy in red go somewhere else. I assume they took left route. I hit trail and as I am approaching junction, I see a guy in yellow and a guy in red run into the woods ahead of me. Yes, I have caught two more people. DOAHHH!!! It's Tim and the other guy, they took the trail and go ahead of me. I am run them down. Just about to pass the guy in red when I catch a stick on my foot, causes me to fall, causing a calf cramp. I stop to stretch for 30 seconds. Tim and guy run away. As I approach control I see someone in woods heading toward control. | ||||||
| F. | Jog it in since I can't catch Tim or guy in Red. I navigated for them to several controls and the thanks I get is that they beat me. |
Total Time Lost - 00:00:00