Race Evaluation
South East Night Champs: Chocolate
AngusL
| 1. | P | R | +02:00 | Really poor start. Didn't see that the path I was on fed me straight into the thicket, and instead backtracked up towards the open. | |||
| 2. | P | Pleased here: following Pete H, but stayed on the earth bank and tracked left. | |||||
| 3. | +00:30 | Led Pete through the woods but tracked in too early and for the first time in the evening was arrested by high bramble wires. | |||||
| 4. | P | Clear plan: tracks and to hide. | |||||
| 5. | Running a little faster than my navigation would allow, but got to it easily. | ||||||
| 6. | Starting to lose touch with my big picture of the area, but made it through OK and ended up just east of the control. | ||||||
| 7. | Easy contour along. | ||||||
| 8. | And again - would have been quicker if I'd seen it was at the end of the depressions. | ||||||
| 9. | +05:00 | Chose to use the track to cross the open which was the right decision. Unfortunately it all went wrong here. I didn't set up a good attack point or catching feature. Looking at the GPS trail, I must have passed within 5m of it without seeing it. | |||||
| 10. | +06:00 | Concentration shot. Didn't realise I had a whole section to cross before looking for the thicket. And like last year, I spent too long looking for the right one - not alone! Remembered to use the ditches, and that worked eventually. | |||||
| 11. | +01:00 | Ended up at #12 first and quite quickly, thankfully checking control description. | |||||
| 12. | Easy enough revisit. | ||||||
| 13. | +00:30 | Should have spotted there were two tracks heading south. | |||||
| 14. | Caught up in a fast-moving group including Mike, Ruth and possibly Mark Collins. Fastest leg here. | ||||||
| 15. | Happy with the approach work here. | ||||||
| 16. | Getting fed up with fighting through the undergrowth, and lost contact with the map again. Didn't check the map properly and backtracked too early, caught myself but lost the group in the process. | ||||||
| 17. | +03:00 | Painful traverse of the bramble-strewn open. Went to #18 first, and again caught myself. Thankfully recovered. | |||||
| 18. | Fast over ground I'd already visited. | ||||||
| 19. | Slightly cautious but turned on the pace for this longer leg. Good image of the control site. | ||||||
| 20. | +01:30 | Couldn't see the fence on my left and so ran too far south rather than branching across. | |||||
| 21. | Pretty happy. Blinded by someone on the way in. | ||||||
| 22. | Decided to take the eastern track route rather fight through the striped green. Dropped too early, but guided to it by others' lights. | ||||||
| 23. | Fast along the track. | ||||||
| F. | Sprint in through traffic. Fastest time on this final leg. |
Total Time Lost - 00:19:30