Race Evaluation
Texoma: Day 2 Red
Cristina
| 1. | +02:00 | In typical first control fashion, took a stupid route (more or less straight through all the crap). | |||||
| 2. | Aimed a little right and hit it, though hesitant. | ||||||
| 3. | +00:30 | Fast trail route, but then ended up right of the control. Where's the road that I heard? Map ends awfully close to control location... | |||||
| 4. | +00:30 | Tried to ignore all the confusing trails through the semi-open stuff in the middle, with moderate success. Then proceeded to jump into a ditch before the stream with the control. | |||||
| 5. | Successfully kept full concentration and read map while running...on a rather simple leg. | ||||||
| 6. | For the first time on the map actually picked off rock features! | ||||||
| 7. | +01:00 | Contoured through the open-ish stuff to the trail and through the open batch at the other end. Fence would probably have worked better. Sad thing is, spent a long time thinking! | |||||
| 8. | +06:00 | Just ran to the "corner of the hill" and made it there, just way too low. That's a not a good strategy. Ran back and forth before going up, crossing over a turtle carcass twice (the same one!) | |||||
| 9. | +00:30 | Again picked off small features, but didn't use them to move lower on the hill. So a little high, but not much. | |||||
| 10. | +02:00 | Very "creative" route choice here, I was fed up with green terrain. Dropped down to the shore of the lack and then back up a stream to the open. Almost dropped down a cliff to get there (I was desperate). | |||||
| 11. | Followed fence-line, and it was slow going. No better choice, except to move faster. ;-) | ||||||
| 12. | No problems, though some luck here with all the bends in the stream. | ||||||
| 13. | +01:00 | Tore out of the last leg to get away from the crowd, successfully, then ended up to the right of the control, pulled away by the track. No problem once I moved over. | |||||
| 14. | Jumped over towards the fenceline near the "white", but fell way short. No biggie. | ||||||
| 15. | Straightforward, mostly just a bit of a climb. | ||||||
| 16. | This is where I realized that the map was 1:10000, not 1:7500 like yesterday... | ||||||
| 17. | Why did this take so long? I have no idea. | ||||||
| F. | Felt better than yesterday, but still sloppy. Need to learn better management of scraggly texas terrain. |
Total Time Lost - 00:13:30