Race Evaluation
Wester States Champs: Day 2: Blue
mindsweeper
| 1. | Didn't want to go over the top of the hill, so went around right. Hit a bit low and had to climb slightly to avoid steep contouring / green. | ||||||
| 2. | Dogleg. | ||||||
| 3. | A bit too careful. | ||||||
| 4. | +00:30 | Did not read the map well, and almost went too far East. Corrected before descending from the hill above. | |||||
| 5. | I didn't want to climb the steep hill in the terrain, because I was worried about loose footing. Hence, I went around right on the road, cutting off a little bit of climb near the top. | ||||||
| 6. | +00:15 | Confused by all the logging roads. | |||||
| 7. | No reason to go around the hill, so over and contourish down to the road. Ran up the road a bit, but not all the way. May have been a good idea, because I ended up close to the road before swinging back left down into the reentrant. | ||||||
| 8. | Nice course setting! One might be tempted to cross to the nearest road, but that incurs unnecessary climb. Instead I went down the spur to the small trail that turns into a road. Then shortly after the T-junction, I cut across rather than running on the road all the way. Not necessarily any faster, but saved a bit of distance. | ||||||
| 9. | Easy. | ||||||
| 10. | Over the top of the hill, then carefully down - many shallow reentrants! | ||||||
| 11. | +03:30 | Missed high, probably because I was tired and scared of going too low on the hill and having to climb. Met Mikell as I was running into it - Magnus was also approaching. | |||||
| 12. | Straight, aiming a bit left. | ||||||
| 13. | Mikell and Magnus went straight, whereas I cut to the road. Magnus was 14 second quicker, but I came to the control from above. | ||||||
| 14. | After having decended to 14, I was able to start running up towards 14, whereas Magnus groaned and walked initially. Mikell was 30-40m ahead of us. | ||||||
| 15. | Magnus picked a straighter route than me through the field, and gained a few more seconds. | ||||||
| 16. | Contoured. | ||||||
| 17. | Saw Magnus dropping left, and Mikell climbing right. Decided to follow Mikell, because it would be better to descend on the control from the top. In retropsect, I think it would have been better to avoid the extra climb, since I was getting pretty tired. By the time I got to this control, I could not see either Magnus nor Mikell anymore. | ||||||
| 18. | The course setter had put my last leg right on the trail where lots of little children were running white and/or yellow. I tried to avoid killing any of them as I sprinted down the hill. | ||||||
| F. | Streamered run. |
Total Time Lost - 00:04:15