Race Evaluation
NEOC - Northfield Mtn: Red
PBricker
| 1. | Attack from trail bend. Easy. | ||||||
| 2. | Trail north of control. Attack just past "miscellaneous object." | ||||||
| 3. | +00:30 | Didn't read map. Went down left branch of trail and had to bushwhack. Right branch would have been trail all the way. | |||||
| 4. | +04:00 | Took power line trail all the way around to the back of control. (Might not have been a bad choice, but very slow getting across power line to trail.) Then, I came in too low and wandered some before I climbed up to find it. (Definitely higher than on my map.) | |||||
| 5. | +04:00 | Misread the map and thought there were reentrants on eitther side of the knoll. When I came in right and saw a spur going up to the right, thought it should go to knoll. Took me a while to figure it out; apparently circled around the knoll and relocated at marsh east to the east. | |||||
| 6. | +02:00 | Went up reentrant north of one I wanted. When I came to the four cliffs, knew what happened and corrected. | |||||
| 7. | Big trail to small trail up through the cliffs, and down. Spiked it. (My watch split for 6 and 7 was 18:57, which doesn't make sense. I surmise it should be 24:57, since at the finish, they had me 6 minutes slower than my watch. How does a watch lose 6 Minutes?) | ||||||
| 8. | Attacked from where the little loop trail came in. Spiked it, though dropping down to take the trail and back up might have been faster, and safer. | ||||||
| 9. | +10:00 | I'm pretty sure I went to the boulder circled on the map, but the flag was 50 meters further up the towards the clearing. I wandered a lot, went back to the trail to atack again, covered the same ground, finally found it on a boulder smaller than those Mikell usually maps. | |||||
| 10. | +00:30 | Tired and frustrated, I sort of threw in the towel and moved slowly from here to the finish. Checked out the north-south cliff first and had to come back. | |||||
| 11. | +10:00 | Lost it on this one. Ended up on the trail west of the control thinking I was on the trail east of the control. Finally figured it all out by going down trail 300 meters south of control to junction. | |||||
| 12. | Took unmapped trail right to it. | ||||||
| 13. | SW to the trail | ||||||
| F. | Not a good day in the woods! |
Total Time Lost - 00:31:00