Race Evaluation
QOC Pohick Bay: Green
Nadim
| 1. | hesitant with the map and being cautious with my knee. | ||||||
| 2. | +03:45 | Left #1 poorly. Using visual clues instead of my compass, I went up the wrong reentrant. The correction involved extra climb and threading my way through some nasty deadfall. | |||||
| 3. | Feeling slow but just down the reentrant, crossing to the right before the major side reentrant, then staying high enough to drop into the flatish area leading to the control. | ||||||
| 4. | +00:45 | epunch came off when the lanyard got stuck on a tree branch. | |||||
| 5. | Up, then through the green, using the shallow reentrant for a bit. I used the campground roads, then the field and followed the reentrant all the way down to the control. | ||||||
| 6. | Running sidhill, and using the trail for a little while. I went through what was mapped as green fight but it was easy. After crossing the road, I dropped back into the woods right on target. | ||||||
| 7. | To the left to use the trail, then up the parking lot. I saw Keg Good near the intersection where I turned left. I left the road from the top of the hill. | ||||||
| 8. | +01:00 | Out to the south edge of the map, I used the dirt construction for what looks it will soon be a paved trail. Once past the park entrance, angled into the woods; my original plan had been to keep going forward but sort of made a mistake. It kept me on a straighter line so it wasn't bad. I lost further time understanding what I'd done. I crossed the trail not seeing it and then weaving through unmapped deadfall. I popped onto a maintenance road and saw Keg Good just behind me. I figured she was on the same leg--her route must have been better or I think I would have caught her sooner. I jumped back into the woods when I realized roughly where I was--too far right. Finally I dropped into the big long reentrant and ran down it smothly. I was worried a bit about going down too hard and further damaging my knee. I passed Mason and his dad near the bottom. I climbed with some angle but not enough. I could see the small building at the top and knew I needed to get over more but a tree was in my way. I climbed a bit too high but corrected into the control easily. | |||||
| 9. | Straight over the ridge and down the reentrant. I passed between the spurs and crossed the stream, then found myself lower than I wanted when crossing the road-like trail just above the curve. I cut across and spiked the control from there. The contours on the map in this area are not very good. | ||||||
| 10. | I jogged going up when it was flat enough but otherwise found myself walking a bunch. I did run once at the top. | ||||||
| F. | With the trail blocked by a few trees and the park planting trees on it, I suppose this trail should now be marked intermitant. I ran somewhat poorly on it, passing a few others. |
Total Time Lost - 00:05:30