Race Evaluation
Billygoat Run: Billygoat
dness
| 1. | followed crowd nw to trail, cross bridge. In hindsight, avoiding the rolling reentrants would have been a good idea. | ||||||
| 2. | I was in pain on this leg. Note to self: Before a Billygoat, warm up better. My calves were screaming and I had to slow down. | ||||||
| 3. | Over the ridge S of the line, run trail to just before hil on R, follow reentrant to control. | ||||||
| 4. | While going to #3 I had time to think about the skip. Noticing that #4 was even more of a climb, I chose it. But then I overheard someone say that it seemed that skipping #5 would save more of a climb. Sounded like a good idea to me. Besides, my legs were feeling much better on this climb. | ||||||
| 5. | Skip. | ||||||
| 6. | Caught up with a crowd here. | ||||||
| 7. | Went with Bob Lux, not using trail. He drifted W, I tried staying E but still ended up too far W - but not so far that I couldn't see the control. Punched in just after Sharon + somebody else. | ||||||
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| 10. | Run trail to end then make a beeline to 10 and run. Mistake: should have taken a line to avoid the cliffs. | ||||||
| 11. | Followed Peter Goodwin and Bob Lux for a while. Briefly parted when they went high and I went low, but we rejoined just after the road. I probably should have kept following, but I felt like navigating myself. Took a more or less straight course. Probably again should have avoided cliffy contours. Met Scott Turner at #11. | ||||||
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| 14. | Scott and I crisscrossed on the way to #14, - we both got confused, but Scott assimilated the sums of our knowledges very well and led me to the control. | ||||||
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| 17. | Now I'm beginning to doubt I can make it under time, so I pick up the pace. | ||||||
| 18. | If I weren't pressed for time, I would have avoided the waist-deep crossing. Not too bad, though. Slight error: Went high near control and had to come down. | ||||||
| 19. | Got confused with the various hills. Plan was to skirt the rocky one on the right, end up skirting the big one instead. Should have followed Tanya out of #19. | ||||||
| 20. | Keeping a fairly good pace here, considering I'd been going for several hours. | ||||||
| F. | What was I worried about? Made it with 8 minutes to spare. Great course - Thanks, Will. |
Total Time Lost - 00:00:00