Race Evaluation
West Point Day 2: Red Y
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| 1. | Original plan was PG's route, but I varied by cutting over when I got to the 3rd long hill. Got pulled slightly to the right by a faster runner and we stopped at the wrong boulder. It took me a few seconds to notice that there were two mapped boulders in the reentrant. He figured it out first. | ||||||
| 2. | After slogging up, blast down the left side of the nose, almost killing myself, but never falling. Manage to halt on the same contour as the control. | ||||||
| 3. | Run down the trail, cut off at just the right moment. | ||||||
| 4. | Stayed high, in fact was more to the right of the line than I thought or intended until I got to the hill. Followed the nose due S of the control straight up to it. Unnecessarily went up and down near the control. | ||||||
| 5. | Ran right of the marshes, left of the big boulder pair. Straight. Met someone who left 4 about the same time I did. | ||||||
| 6. | Slog up R side of reentrant, then overrun slightly to the left, but stop when I see the pair of knolls in front of me. | ||||||
| 7. | Stay high, left of big reentrant, cross tip of marsh. I thought I was on track, but really I was one nose to the left. If I had made out the cliffs on the map while running I would have had an easier time of it. Wandered with a couple of other people, one of whom found it first. That's a ditch? | ||||||
| 8. | Down to trail, by water stop. Took a really poor choice of route (straight), costing time when I completely lost track of where I was. | ||||||
| 9. | Speaking of poor route choices, this one cost me 5 minutes -- I went to the left, below the cliffs. Terrain was very difficult: rocks + side slopes. | ||||||
| 10. | Straight. Was there really a reentrant there? | ||||||
| 11. | PGs route | ||||||
| 12. | PGs route | ||||||
| 13. | Followed PGs route until I came to the stream. Since I wasn't going to be in competition for any awards, I decided not to get my feet wet and found a crossing. | ||||||
| 14. | I may as well have gotten my feet wet on the way to 13, 'cuz they definitely got soaked on this leg! Here I was bonking and went slow. Was passed by Andy + Nadim running the boggy trail. | ||||||
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| F. | Thanks, cadets, for a couple of fun courses. It's the first time I survived a West Point weekend without major mistakes or being completely brutalized by the terrain. |
Total Time Lost - 00:00:00