Race Evaluation
BAOC Briones: Blue
Tundra/Desert
| 1. | The route will be here in due time. | ||||||
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Bad route choice +02:40 | Went far right and climbed too much after leaving the indistinct trail, so it was too much extra distance, one unneeded reentrant crossing, and some steep contouring. The paradox was, I sort of wanted to climb more, trying out some proactive O today. If I were just reactive, I would have happily stayed on the lower, less-steep slopes, and had a sharper climb at the end of the leg. Of course, it I were healthy I would have just went straight. | |||||
| 3. | More contouring around. This time it seemed to work, as I did not insist on a perfectly level route and ate up some climb. | ||||||
| 4. | The tall grass seemed to demand more leg/core strength than an average US orienteer would possess, so even if I were healthy I don't think I would have been able to run many of the south-facing slopes. | ||||||
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| 6. | Here's wher the liver started to hurt, on the downhill. From here on, had to take downhills very easy. | ||||||
| 7. | There was a sub-optimal steep ditch crossing as I left the trail for good, which involved extended use of forearms and little progress in the horizontal plane, but I don't count that as time lost (there was a better way to cross the ditch earlier in the game, but there was no way to know from the map). | ||||||
| 8. | The control was in the next reentrant to the north. I did not lose much time because of that. I did stop and think. | ||||||
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Confused parallel features Disturbed by others +03:00 | I had to walk the downhill out of #9 because of the bouncy liver. The uphill, however, went just fine, I don't think I lost to anyone on the walk. Shortly before the top of the last hill, I saw Mikkel (whom I gave 5 minutes at the start and whom I sincerely did not expect to see on the course). He thought the deer flies were ticks, and slowed down to extract them but had to keep doing it continuously. As I joined him, we instantly went down the wrong spur, one to the left. I recovered quickly and marched on to the correct spur, but hit it too low and spent some time studying some million-dollar house design just below. | |||||
| 11. | Had to walk the steep downhill right out of #10. Mikkel found this one for me. | ||||||
| 12. | As this one was mostly uphill, did fine. Mikkel gradually pulled away, but I had him in sight. | ||||||
| 13. | I found a sweet place to get down, and on the uphill, could walk very well without any pain in the liver, so did reasonably well on this leg. | ||||||
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Did not follow plan +01:10 | I went basically straight, and it was not fun. Much up and down and steep contouring, with a nasty uphill in the end. So it was all walking and dealing with the pain. If I were healthy, I would have dropped across the clearing out of #13, and then climbed on the trail. Even for the sick me, that would have been a better choice. Mikkel, however, started on the contouring route out of #13, and I followed him and then sort of took the path that seemed to be least resistive, but wasn't. | |||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:06:50