Race Evaluation
Mt Tom: Red
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| 1. | +00:10 | Through the parking lot and up the left side of the big-ish re-entrant to the road. Got confused by the ripples in the hillside that look kind of like they could be the little reentrants further left, but don't seem to be in the right place for that. | |||||
| 2. | +03:00 | Just wasn't focussed enough. Got to the stream, not totally sure of my location, but I felt like I had drifted downhill, so I went uphill. Completely ignored the voice in my head saying, "this is too steep, the flat part is just down there..." | |||||
| 3. | Straight-ish. Slow with all the leaves and rocks. | ||||||
| 4. | I went around the bottom of the cliffs. | ||||||
| 5. | I decided that if the white woods were as rocky as they are, the rocky ground must be abysmal, so I hiked up the slope at the reentrant before the one pointing into the control. Had to walk up the hill. I think this was slower than more direct routes, but maybe I was just slow. | ||||||
| 6. | I went straight, not noticing that if I dropped down early I wasn't actually going to do any extra climb. Executed fine, though. | ||||||
| 7. | +02:00 | Wanted to go more or less straight, but wasn't careful enough on the compass and ended up right of where I wanted to be, in a surprisingly parallel feature. Ended up relocating off some obvious cliffs. Hard to know exactly how much time it cost me. | |||||
| 8. | +00:45 | I decided to go up the hill early and then run along the top of the spur to the control. That spur went on for a lot longer than I was expecting, and has a number of unmapped knolls with almost-cliffs next to them. | |||||
| 9. | +00:20 | Kind of sloppy, but not too bad. | |||||
| 10. | +00:20 | Just not very confident. Lots of hesitation. I think it's just that I haven't been orienteering much. | |||||
| 11. | +02:00 | I went straight, found everything I was looking for, except the rock the control was on. Can't believe I missed it. Ended up running over to another reentrant to relocate. | |||||
| 12. | +02:30 | Once again, not really paying attention while on a bearing. Over-corrected after drifting south, then hit the trail too far north, and zigzagged around in the re-entrants. | |||||
| 13. | Went down by the stream, I don't think it was great. | ||||||
| 14. | Tripped on a root while running along the trail. Having some stomach issues. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:11:05