Race Evaluation
Mid Atlantic Champs-Nolde Park: Red
Wyatt
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| 2. | +00:15 | Left down the green line which wasn't a trail (I see today) and marsh, then hit road/trail before cutting back into field and up to 2 - should've hit the mapped trail and done the bends. | |||||
| 3. | +00:15 | Straight out, then a little low through some extra green on the way to 3 | |||||
| 4. | Up right to trail junc., up trail, then in from Y leaning to the right of the flat. | ||||||
| 5. | Bearing - keeping an eye on hill and Yellow to my right. The forest is getting open enough now to do this... | ||||||
| 6. | Straight. Attacked carefully from bend but then saw bag 100m away. | ||||||
| 7. | (7+8 was 4:50) Hit the trail but then it took a while to hit the junction so I was nervous for overunning it. From there in I read the green okay, although the footing off the road was rough. | ||||||
| 8. | Attacked up left set of reentrant and missed the reentrant which, after popping out the other side and studying the map for a bit, did not appear to connect, thus I headed back in to my left and there it was. | ||||||
| 9. | Trails left, downhil straight from Y. | ||||||
| 10. | +01:00 | Climbed to trail and followed it, then it went uphill so I bailed but split between a direct attack and aiming for my original planned attackpoint of the trail bend I hit the trail approx. SE from the bag, stood thinking about spurs for a few seconds, then bailed back down. | |||||
| 11. | +00:03 | A bit right. | |||||
| 12. | +00:10 | Up, left road, cut bend (on left light green part), curved right on larger trail, missed left turn (10 sec), then zig/zag/zig and down. | |||||
| 13. | To white, drop, trail, green/rock, then up climbing more than needed and stopping short at early reentrant. | ||||||
| 14. | +02:30 | Boy was this a costly route choice. Went straight over as I didn't want to lose the climb on the trail left. Right by 17, but the white from 17-14 was pretty crappy - briars and rocks. Missed the indistinct trail (it was very indistinct), and hit charcoal platform then had to climb. All in all a bad leg for me. | |||||
| 15. | Climbed (WNW) out, hit trail then zoom to above 15 and drop fast. I wonder if the x and triangle are mapped lower on the hill than they actually are, compared to the trail/green in the reentrant? That would explain several things... | ||||||
| 16. | +00:20 | Aimed and hit trail junction, then cut across briary white (vegetation boundary area) too low somehow, then climbed. | |||||
| 17. | Been here before (but hadn't seen the trail I used to get there. | ||||||
| 18. | +00:15 | Past 15. Today I'm thinking straight down the green-line trail to the road would've been better. What did other's do? | |||||
| 19. | Consider going around right, but decide to go for a closer look - and this medium green is overmapped - it's 'dark' due to the small pines, but it's faster than the white near 17. | ||||||
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| 21. | +00:10 | Climbed a bit much early on, hitting the road due N of the control. | |||||
| 22. | Thanks to the early runners for punching a hole in the green early in this leg. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:04:58