Race Evaluation
US Champs: Red X
cmorse
| 1. | +00:10 | After yesterdays pathetic run (blind in the rain) I could not make up an real time on the leaders, so I vowed to run clean and beat Doug Gosling back to the finish as he was first M35 after Saturday and was beginning three minutes behind me today. Ran to trail, attacked from corner, got there but initially did not see bag due to sun/shade contrast. | |||||
| 2. | +00:20 | Got slightly right, corrected ok | |||||
| 3. | +00:20 | Went east of marsh along series of knolls, once past marsh became a little hesitant but managed to get there ok hitting the hill about 25m east of bag. | |||||
| 4. | +05:00 | Blew this one - tried to take a careful bearing through the green and crossed a series of marshes - seemed ok until I saw open water.. oh s*&t... Quickly realized I was up east of #6 near boundary, ran hard following linear marsh to the east and cleanly into bag, but lost a bit of time here... | |||||
| 5. | +00:15 | Determined to make up time, I start to push the pace, paused briefly in the first reentrant to make sure I was ok, then over the correct one | |||||
| 6. | +00:30 | Picked up Andreas R. in this area, whom I would jockey with most of the rest of the race. blasted straight through first two marshes, had to stop to tie shoe just before third marsh, then cut through and over to boulder. Andreas got ahead but went north, I spiked it and he followed me through. | |||||
| 7. | +00:10 | With Andreas on my heels, took off hitting first trail at the tree stand (spike), then across marsh going ne of knoll and dropped into saddle just sw of pit hitting that knoll in middle but knew right where flag should be. | |||||
| 8. | +00:40 | Andreas got out ahead of me here, we ran pretty hard through the blackberry, then across the marshes at different points, I somehow got a little left and came upon some nice big rootstocks that were not mapped but read contours quickly and then corrected to the east. Doug G. leaving as I reach the flag | |||||
| 9. | Running hard with a crowd of 4-5 - Doug and Andreas in the mix at this point. Ran cleanly through green hitting the clear exactly at the reentrant with narrow marsh, shoot up the hill to the rootstocks - spiking them. | ||||||
| 10. | Leave ahead of pack with only Andreas close behind, he drifts right, I spike the bag and leave trying to blaze fast downhill to stream junction | ||||||
| 11. | Hit stream junction deadon, slip left of hill and then over to distinct tree - spike. I am moving confidently and strongly here. | ||||||
| 12. | +00:10 | Doug G. picks me up just before the marsh exiting control, I consider the trail around, but decide I am running strongly and this is my chance to dump some 'baggage'. Cross marsh and then make a beeline for stream/stonewall halfway to 12, pass Jim Baker in here. I am moving very confidently and fast through here. As I near the end of the stonewall, Andreas catches me from behind. I slow just a bit, hesitant in the array of form line reentrants, pretty sure I need to go farther, but looking about just in case so I don't overrun. No sign of Doug. | |||||
| 13. | Andreas off ahead of me, I run as fast as I can keeping marsh to my left but staying in the runnable terrain. Break out to the trail and run hard, Andreas distances me, but not by a lot. | ||||||
| F. | The finish sprint in - hard to get used to having to slow/stop to punch at the line instead of running through. All in all a satisfying run. Doug G. comes in a little less than 2 minutes behind me, having taken the trail to #12. |
Total Time Lost - 00:07:35