Race Evaluation
NEOC: Diamond Hill: Blue
dness
| 1. | Plan was to cut west and use the ruin as the point at which to cut SE. Not executed well - I passed a nose with a rock formation which I mistook for a ruin, went into the thick stuff. Backed up and went around. Got confused by the rock formations and had to use the trail to reorient. | ||||||
| 2. | Straight shot - cut west from the trail junction. | ||||||
| 3. | Went straight, not the trail. Spiked it. | ||||||
| 4. | Ended up going through the saddle (not original plan). Followed hillside. Tough going. | ||||||
| 5. | Run trail to end, then dive in. Follow reentrant around and up. | ||||||
| 6. | Ran trail around to the south, then cut west after the knoll. | ||||||
| 7. | It seemed to take forever to get to the trail - must have been going further west than planned. Anyway, straightforward. Trail W, N, bearing from bend. | ||||||
| 8. | Took nearest trail E, only later realizing that cutting across would have saved climb. Then ran N from junction and around N. Found an unmapped cliff in the circle + got confused, eventually finding the other one. | ||||||
| 9. | Straight shot. Stopped for goo at the water stop. | ||||||
| 10. | SE from wall junction. Goo hadn't done its work, so I was worried that I started from the wrong one, so I slowed down. Spiked it, tho. | ||||||
| 11. | Trail to reentrant NE of control. I again lost confidence because it was thick, thought I was too far west and overcorrected. When I hit the stone wall and saw the rocks on the other side, I worked it out eventually. | ||||||
| 12. | Run trail N then E then cut S to end of stone wall, then E. Not very efficient. | ||||||
| 13. | Started running the trail around S, E, N etc., but didn't like the climb, so I turned around and went N through the junk. Found a nice trial up, which I took, then cut NW at a point. Didn't find the bag where I thought, so I went N to the trail, thought I knew where I was and cut back in. Nope. Spotted the cliff to the NE of the control and used that. Finally! | ||||||
| 14. | Found a trail and ran it. In the process, my ability to focus on the map disappeared. I was seeing diamonds (low blood pressure?). Ended up on the N/S trail further than I thought. Wandered a bit before I figured it out. | ||||||
| 15. | Through the gap, had to jump off a 6 foot cliff. | ||||||
| F. | For the area, it was a nice course. |
Total Time Lost - 00:00:00