Race Evaluation
2012 Laramie Daze: Rocky Mountain Goat
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| 1. | the leaders went more right to avoid some climb. I was more straight lined and had a cleaner approach so passed some people who overshot the reentrant | ||||||
| 2. | +00:20 | the leaders drifted way left. I went straight but then got pulled off when I went into the trees and still have to correct just like the leaders. | |||||
| 3. | ,I straight lined it. leaders went a little left. Still in a good position at this point. I am with Greg Walker and Pete Curtis. I think Jon Goodwin is still with us also but he disappeared somewhere | ||||||
| 4. | left of the line to avoid some climb. Crossed the road, through the saddle then straight south. We popped out quite a bit west of the line where there is a small trail joing the road. We could see the baird running across the field. Angled over to the crossing point and up to the control. I had water and lost ground to Greg and Pete | ||||||
| 5. | straight | ||||||
| 6. | i countoured more than Greg/Pete and made up ground | ||||||
| 7. | I went straight, Greg/Pete were more left. I got to control first | ||||||
| 8. | +00:45 | Since I was leading I wanted to run well. It should have been an easy control but I took a rough bearing based on the end of the aspen and ended up 100 m past the control at the next big rock. Pete was with me. I realized my mistake and Greg and JP were a long ways towards the next control. I had water and a Gel. Pete was not 100m ahead of me. | |||||
| 9. | Straight. Could see people ahead of me so didn't need to navigate much | ||||||
| 10. | Straight. Could see people ahead of me so didn't need to navigate much | ||||||
| 11. | +00:15 | Short control but I started out heading down hill so had to climb back up | |||||
| 12. | Straight | ||||||
| 13. | +00:20 | I lost a lot of time trying to read the map. I thought the control was on the close side of the aspen . Turns out I was reading hill contours as the control (where the purple line ended). So I wanted to make sure I knew what I was looking for. I got the area only to realize that #13 was on the other side of the green. Someone else passed me while I stopped to read the map. I should have just run pell mell down the re-entrant like everyone else was doing. | |||||
| 14. | +13:00 | I could see Greg Walker and others going straight over the hill. I decided I would take the trail around and avoid the climb. I knew there was danger of running off the map so I would have to be careful. First mistake was I was planning ahead and ran directly to the pond and had to run around. Got the trail and kept running. I left the trail before the bend in the swamp and climbed the fence/rocks. It took me 20 seconds to get through the fence as I was tired and got caught on the barbed wire. I cut over to the east/west trail and everything was going well. I had made up ground on Pete and the other guy. Now all I had to do was run up the trail until I saw the rocks and cut in. OOOPS. i was running along the map edge and cut up at rocks that weren't on the map. Pete was right with me. We both went to where the control should have been but wasn't as we were way off (the map). We then floundered trying to relocate. Well, when you are off that map that is hard. After a long time, I finally dropped back to trail (back on the map) and ran to the water hole/fence thingy and then to the control. It took 25 minutes to get the control (should have been about 12-13). | |||||
| 15. | +00:20 | As I approached 15, I see Pete running to 16. Rather than navigate I just tried to zero back Petes direction. That didn't work too well. I had to spend a little time actually reading the map. | |||||
| 16. | Straight | ||||||
| 17. | Trail Option did not look appealing. I went straight but drifted left. I was tired and stupid. I was having a tough time knowing what was a reentrant and what was a spur. I hit the rocks east of control along with Jeremy Colgan + some other people and I followed Jeremy to the control. | ||||||
| 18. | You could see people running across the field. Pete way ahead in yellow, Someone in Red (Carol Ross). I didn't think I could catch Carol but set off at a uncomfortable tiring run. I got ahead of Jeremy as he went through more rocks. running across the field I had decided that if Jeremy wanted to pass me I would let him. he didn't pass me. I lost a lot of time doing the punch (trying to line up the punch on my wadded up punch card). Jeremy still right behind me. Carol was moving very slow and I was gaining on her more than I thought I would. It wasn't worth trying to run hard and catch her but I thought it interesting to note | ||||||
| 19. | Jeremy still didn't pass me although he was right on my heels. Lost several precious seconds punching again. | ||||||
| F. | straight |
Total Time Lost - 00:15:00