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Race Evaluation

Constance Bay: Ottawa Spring Series 2: A-B-SO

Niall

1. +00:30Slow start, went by path instead of directly in forest. Took too long to look at the map at start.
2. +00:20Cut diagonal instead of going to faster path; lots of brambles, slowing me down. Should have gone parallel to path, not on it.
3. +00:20A bit of a slog, too much walking in the green
4. oh, the green... but nothing substantially wrong with my path choice. Just the usual slowness.
5. +00:20Should not have gone by path, and even then turned off before the bend which would have led me right to it.
6. +02:00Slog city. Sharp thorny branches. Guessed direction, did not go by terrain.
7. +00:10A bit of hesitation, getting a bit tired. The direction line from the little bowl shape was very distinct.
8. +00:15Not enough terrain reading, some walking`
9. +01:30Did not read terrain, went blindly on path for too long. Did figure an intuition that I was too west and getting too close to the path.
10. +01:00Wrong bearing - "a bit west of N" is what I did, but I wasn't holding the map to magnetic north but parallel to main forest axe. oops. Plus tired.
11. +00:45Too wide detour to map exchange plus tired walking. Correct estimate of where to cut from path to 11, just at the start of the baseball diamond.
12. +00:30cut right through path instead of taking it to T junction as better breakoff point (and faster vegetation)
13. +01:30Deep in the Green, slow slog and many new scratches earned.
14. +00:30Should have read terrain to pass at left of green patch instead of through, and right at start of path. Angling from path went right to control.
15. +01:00Caught my breath at path. Decided to go by known terrain to #7 then keep going north. Went a bit east, but correction was easy once in sight.
16. +00:30This time I read terrain right, looked for long level terrain just before path descended. Followed line and saw control in distance. Down, up, punch!
17. Got it by instinct more than anything else.
18. +00:45Should have gone straight to path, not parallel, slowed me down. I might as well have gone all NNE through woods at that point.
F. +20:00Double brainfart: didn't align map to north, went back to South forest, even when path ended when map said it didn't. Found #12. Realised error, went to O-3; lost 10 minutes easily. Did not go to path, didn't realise what direction I was going, confused interesections, went off in wrong direction completely, found myself once at same interesection; lost another 10 minutes. Rest was easy but a bit slow due to tiredness.

Total Time Lost - 00:31:55


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