Race Evaluation
DVOA Frontier Festival: Blue - Day 1
jjcote
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Bad route choice Bad compass work Unused to terrain +00:30 | Around cultivated to right, then across field. Drifted right in the woods and stumbled across #3 on my way. | |||||
| 2. | Low route. | ||||||
| 3. |
Bad compass work +01:15 | Now where was that #3? Drifted left and had to fight my way back trough the green. | |||||
| 4. |
Took a chance +00:10 | Stopped to check another control that I (correctly) thought was too soon -- just in case. Ben (Vytenis) catches me. | |||||
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Confused parallel features Bad distance judgement +02:00 | Field and trail, while Ben goes straight, and gets there at the same time (so my choice was better). We both take a few steps too many and leave the field one reentrant too far, and I actually find a control in there, but the code is wrong. | |||||
| 6. | Almost straight. | ||||||
| 7. |
Did not like map Bad compass work +08:00 | Get confused and tangled up getting out to the trail, but then it's no problem to get to... no control. Head west -- oops, too far. Back east... too far. Attack from the south, same place again, still nothing. Can I be in completely the wrong place? No, it's got to be here. See Ted Good cruise through, but I see no control. Finally crawl to the inside of a thicket and find the control inside a bush. I could have sworn that circle of dots meant "clearing". | |||||
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Did not plan ahead | Run about 3/4 of the way around the soccer field, unable to make up my mind where I'm going. Crossing the marsh, Will Hawkins catches up and follows me into a briar patch, then when I step aside to let him play through, he goes off in search of a better way. I clamber through, and come into the control right behind Will and Ted Good. | |||||
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| 10. | Stayed a little left to avoid the green, and got ahead of Ted. Took the trail on the near side of the stream, and crossed right at the control. | ||||||
| 11. | See Ted coming across stream to the west of the control on my way out. Big trail to the west. | ||||||
| 12. |
Read map too late +01:00 | Zigzaggy route slightly left of the line. Try crossing green at the big stream loop, but have to back up and go farther north. | |||||
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| 14. |
Hesitated +00:20 | SW out of control for a big swing left of the line, then a big swing right. Lose a little bit planning this out, and on sorting out the little trail branches NW of the start. | |||||
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Bad map reading +02:00 | S to the trail junction, W on the trail, up reentrant and through saddle. Ken Walker passes me about the tine I leave the trail. I get too low after going through saddle and wind up in reentrant W of control. As I head up into the correct reentrant, I'm surprised to see Will tearing off to the west (heading in the direction of #9). As I get to the control, I see Ted leaving it, and inexplicably heading off after Will. | |||||
| 16. | I ignore those guys and head for #16. Will catches up and passes me just before I arrive, and Ted is close behind. | ||||||
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| 18. | I get a better line out of there than those two, despite hitting a bunch of thorns that makes me scream. Leave Ted behind, and get on the trail right behind Will, who disappears up ahead. Attacked down marshy reentrant, no prob. | ||||||
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| 20. | Pass a couple of cadets... | ||||||
| F. | ...who then open it up in the chute. |
Total Time Lost - 00:15:15