Race Evaluation
US Classic Champs: Red
bishop22
| 1. | Streamered leg, so I just took off - Swampfox did go by me when I looked down at my map to plan leg 2, but I punched right after him. | ||||||
| 2. | Straight - seemed long, but the reentrant just past halfway kept me on. | ||||||
| 3. | It took longer than expected to cross the trail - then I remembered the map was 1:15 (that's why C2 seemed long). Plenty of climb to the visible feature at the end of this leg. | ||||||
| 4. | Just left of the hilltop, then ran down the spur from there, following the branch around to the left. | ||||||
| 5. | Pretty straight - was reading the contours quite well, and the rocks were useful (not overwhelming). | ||||||
| 6. | +27:00 | Disaster strikes. Punched just behind someone, but had a plan and took off to the right to go down the clearing, then crossed the trail pretty close to the line. I was hearing footsteps the whole way, so I was really trying to run hard. I must have drifted right before the road because I ended up missing the streambed just before the control - and with the adrenaline produced by being chased, coupled with another streambed coming up, caused my pace count to be off and I quickly found a boulder up the hill past the streambed, just left of a small reentrant. I couldn't gt myslef to believe that wasn't the correct boulder, especially since two others were searching in the area. Finally gave up and started on towards C7. When I got up the hill a ways, near the start area of the model event, I realized I was not where I would have expected, and that I could have had C6 wrong. Went back down and, sure enough, the flag was there. | |||||
| 7. | +01:30 | A dejected walk up the hill cost me time on this leg. | |||||
| 8. | +00:20 | Took some extra care here, and did some extra walking. | |||||
| 9. | Just a bit right to the clearing, then aimed just right of the big boulder. | ||||||
| 10. | Slow going following the line and reading the details. In hindsight, I should have just run leftish to the trail even with the control, then corrected. | ||||||
| 11. | +02:15 | Missed right and it took me far too long to track this one down - especially since I wound up stopped about 30m away. | |||||
| 12. | Contoured around, carefully. | ||||||
| 13. | Right over the hilltop. | ||||||
| F. | No incentive to finish with a sprint. |
Total Time Lost - 00:31:05