Race Evaluation
Hammond Pond: Brown
ParkSchool
| 1. | These were my splits, although I apparently skipped control 19 on the run-in. Up through large reentrant, then n along swamp. | ||||||
| 2. | +00:10 | N along elephant path, then trail E and straight in. Actually went to S of small form hill while not reading map carefully. | |||||
| 3. | Straight. | ||||||
| 4. | L of line hitting trail at bridge. Over bridge, then straight in. | ||||||
| 5. | Straight keeping bare rock on R. Amused by circle with absolutely no features inside, although did agree that placement and description of control were accurate. | ||||||
| 6. | Trail to road, drawing honks as I crossed from speeding red convertible, although I am sure I was quite clear. Wasted a few seconds keeping feet dry, then got a bit lucky as I saw flag while I still was planning to run a bit further. | ||||||
| 7. | Straight staying L of distinctive circular cliff. | ||||||
| 8. | +00:30 | Tried to go straight, but confused by fact I was crossing an apparent swamp. When I cleared, I was at S end of an oval hill. Thought I was N of flag and headed S, but then I noticed number of rocky features and circled back to N end to hit flag. | |||||
| 9. | +01:30 | Had been warned that circle was in wrong place. Decided to just run up the hill and look for 2 m feature on top. This was not an optimal strategy. Eventually worked my way back N from bare rock. | |||||
| 10. | Went around to L, then past E edge of large cliff. | ||||||
| 11. | +00:20 | R of large cliff on line, but then ran parallel to path to corner of parking lot for no good reason. Then had to attack through briers from S of temple. | |||||
| 12. | S to road, then up and along tip of cliff. | ||||||
| 13. | Down reentrant to exchange, then nicely on line noting boulders on bare rock to L which I planned to use as attackpoint for go control. | ||||||
| 14. | Mostly on line enjoying nice clean running over bare rock on way. | ||||||
| 15. | On line to trail, then cut corner, but had to wait 5-7 seconds to cross. | ||||||
| 16. | On line to trail, then straight over top with large cliff behind me to E. | ||||||
| 17. | Straight, athough dragged briefly to the right by a man standing behind a boulder for a nature stop. Whoops. | ||||||
| 18. | On line, feeling like I had a chance to beat TP's time. | ||||||
| 19. | Oops. Never saw this control hiding on the edge of the swamp. This is the second straight time at Hammond Pond where the run in has had three controls in a perfectly straight line and I have failed to notice the middle one. Ugh. | ||||||
| 20. | Took high road just L of line direcly from #18 to #20, feeling very good about my performance as I attacked successfully from the boulders on bare rock. | ||||||
| F. | Through gap between cliffs to finish. Was blissfully unaware of my error until I sat down to record my splits and noticed that I was one punch short. |
Total Time Lost - 00:02:30