Race Evaluation
Canal Cities Challenge: Long - Red
Nadim
| 1. | Around to the right on the grass along the road. It looked too easy. I hesitated before plunging into the woods but found it easily. | ||||||
| 2. | Straight at it. I realized that the mapped green wasn't so bad. | ||||||
| 3. | I headed straight until I got in the field before the road. Then I curved over, crossed the first road and took the next road to a bend. At first the woods looked bad so I started to go around to the right with the bend but then I saw a hole and ran along it to the trail. I skipped the first fence gap thinking it would be green getting to the control but since the next gap was so low, in retrospect, the first gap would have been better. | ||||||
| 4. | +01:20 | I missed by being a bit low. I hit the odd spur expecting it to be there. I looked uphill toward the control w/o seeing it so I went down, then back up. | |||||
| 5. | +00:30 | I curved around the mapped green and expected to hit the control but I pulled-up too high. A woman runner who started the leg about the same time came-in behind me going straight and stopped too. I went on down after that. | |||||
| 6. | I was a bit sloppy navigating to the road but ran downhill and into the stream. I was hesitant cutting right and using the trail to get to the rough open. I should have angled through the woods more to go around the rough open field. Once through that, I crossed the next road, went left a bit around some vegetation, and then right to the control. | ||||||
| 7. | +00:04 | Straightish but I came around the wrong side of the fallen tree. | |||||
| 8. | I was a bit slowish but right on target. | ||||||
| 9. | +00:35 | I went straight and planned to take the road but second guessed it once on the road. I thought the trails might same some climb and distance. I cut left on a trail but got confused on which trail I'd come up. After pausing at a shelter and relocating, I went straight to it. | |||||
| 10. | I went straight, then up a reentrant, across the slash green (fallen logs) and to the road. I saw that I was faced with the green wall but didn't want to go left to the field. Going right was to be too much climbing. I plunged in and as I did, I saw a younger runner going up the field to my left. After walking through the initial green, I saw the other runner who crossed the road when I did. He was moving faster but we were about even--I felt going through the green saved me time. We switched leads as each of us hesitated. We also brushed the edge of the small fight green along the way, getting to the top of the hill but still below the park border. I was slower so I lost site of the other runner as we got to the reentrant system. I attacked off a reentrant junction and spiked it, surprised that there was so much yellow when it was hardly visible on the map. | ||||||
| 11. | +02:15 | I was worried about the green blob on the straight route so I tried to go around to the left. As I did, I saw the other runner that I'd seen on my way to #10. I guess he missed #10 but could of been on another course. I pulled-up as I got near the big reentrant and soon found a trail as I headed down. I was below the control so I ran back up. | |||||
| 12. | +02:30 | I took a while deciding which way to go. Left along the reentrant seemed like too much climbing. I didn't consider running in the reentrant which it turns out was best. Choosing to run in it without knowing the condition was risky--it could have been filled with branches and logs. I used the trail but was not thinking well enough; I had gone slowly to track all of the bends when I could have just run to the yellow ride, then gone slower. I ended-up spiking the control but lost time. | |||||
| 13. | Down the reentrant to the junction; I went on bearing from there. From root stocks, I realized along the way, that I'd climbed higher than a straight bearing would have taken me so I made the correction and tried to cound streams. The control came-up quicker than expected. | ||||||
| 14. | +02:10 | I read this one well throught the first half of the leg but blew it when I crossed the stream and lost track of which bend I was on. I ended up below it and seeing property boundary signs, then coming up the knoll. | |||||
| 15. | I ran down the hill on bearing. Chasing others quickly, I passed them at the stream where we all crossed. Expecting to be closer to the road, confusion in the fields was not for long. I cut right on the road, and left up the trail. Trusting a bearing, I dropped into the stream and ran up it until it bended enough. I ran out and spiked the control with others behind me. | ||||||
| 16. | I ran straightish along the right side, above the stream to the road. A left and a right got me into the woods again on the left side. I followed trails, including the one intermittant one that I hadn't seen reading on the run. I easily spotted the spur and angled up. | ||||||
| 17. | +01:10 | I should have read this one a bit more carefully. I went straight and hit the trail. Seeing a gap to my right, I plunged into the green following what was the start of an elephant trail. It ended at the fight which I tried unsuccessfully to cross. I went around to the right, saw Alexis, then cut left to the control. If just a little bit further south, I would have been through the green quickly. | |||||
| 18. | I wasn't about to go back through the green so I ran the intermittant trail to the larger one. I knew to look for the fence from the posted meet note but had trouble seeing it on the run. I ran along the earth bank on the trail to the road--tired. | ||||||
| 19. | Over the bridge and to the control passing Glen Tryson along the way. | ||||||
| 20. | Straight. Another runner had just punched. | ||||||
| F. | A tired run to the finish. |
Total Time Lost - 00:10:34