Race Evaluation
US Champs: Red Y
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| 1. | Race comments: Not a lot of planning :-(. My mind didn't really get into the race until late. Wasn't reading a lot of detail; mostly just running to centre of circle and looking for a flag. Maybe too much park orienteering (and events like COCs where I was walking up hills and had plenty of time to read the map). Sloppy race. | ||||||
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Did not plan ahead Read map too late Confused parallel features Not thinking clearly Lacked concentration +02:45 | Didn't read map carefully enough (too reckless), and so attacked as though I was at a different clearing corner. Hit fence. Then when I got to the big boulder my brain must have been short-circuiting since I thought the boulder was supposed to be on a knoll, and also I looked in the wrong direction from the boulder. | |||||
| 4. | I guess I run faster when I'm pissed off. | ||||||
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Bad route choice Not thinking clearly +01:00 | I saw Spike going the around route to 6 as I was going to 1, but somehow thought it was similar climb each way until I checked more closely halfway up the hill. Oh well, not thinking well this day. | |||||
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Bad map reading +01:00 | From my attackpoint where the ridge flattened, I went too far left and hit another clearing with a fallen tree (but fallen the opposite direction). Read map and figured out I was too far left (too close to steeper bit to north). | |||||
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Did not like map +05:30 | Came within 10m of control, but couldn't see it. Relocated twice. Should have done what Adrian did...run up a hill and look down. Much easier to see the control in the bushes from above. | |||||
| 10. | I guess I run faster when I'm pissed off. | ||||||
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Tired Not thinking clearly +01:15 | Saw campers at the sewage dump and my tired brain thought I must be too close to the campground somehow. Then figured it out. | |||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:11:30