Race Evaluation
MVOC: Flying Pig Sprints: Red
Nadim
| 1. | I was warming-up longer than anticipated and got to the start just in time. Both Peggy and Sharon Crawford started 8 and 4 mintues ahead respectively. I only considered the trail routes w/o seeing the road option. I took the low trail to the right since it didn't seem to go both up and down. It ran out quicker than I thought it should, at a downed tree. I ran left and up to go around before crossing a stream and climbing on another trail. I was tentative on finding the right point on the bend to jump off and used the green to ID it. I ran left around the green and was glad to see it. | ||||||
| 2. | I ran straight but drifted right a little. This helped because I could use the reentrant to lead me up to it. | ||||||
| 3. | I went straight and realized the wet area along the way was the reentrant bottom. I went on to spike it and was surprised to see a wet pit on a spur. | ||||||
| 4. | I never saw the trail leaving #3. I just went straight, crossed the road and fence, then used the shape of the field to enter the woods on line. I also used the mowing in the field (rough open/open)to tell me where I was. I paused a couple paces into the woods, saw the reentrant/gully and also saw people converging there, just behind the bank. I ran down the spur to cross the stream and was there. | ||||||
| 5. | +00:35 | I jumped out of the gully quick and was off. In doing so, I didn't see the option to go around the reentrant to the right. I knew I was drifting left to avoid green areas and followed a shallow ditch down. I soon saw the spur and crossed near where the streams converged. I climbed up but didn't go far enough. I went back down and studied the map before going back up and punching. | |||||
| 6. | Trying to go straight, I drifted right a little. As I crossed the stream, I saw Sharon Crawford cross my path, saw the stream convergence, and then turned right to chase her. She got there just ahead of me. | ||||||
| 7. | Sharon went up the hill and never saw me. I decided to go straighter. Getting through the green and crossing the stream wasn't bad. I used the tops of the reentrants to stay on course in the field and used the knolls to position my last reentry into the woods. I hit the biggest "middle gully," made the right choice to go right and saw the control in the next. | ||||||
| 8. | I didn't like the green up above, nor the extra climb. I was already feeling weak and tired from a cold. I ran (more like climbed and ducked) in the reentrant almost all the way to the next junction 250m downstream--it was very slow. I ran up the spur to cross the reentrant higher up, crossed, then saw the control from the edge of the gully. | ||||||
| 9. | Straight across the rough open and to the left of the knoll on the line, I crossed the green and came up the ridge to spike it. I thought this was a bit easy for a red control. An older man left just before I did. | ||||||
| 10. | I studied the route before chasing the older guy. I stayed on the left side of the stream, checking off the reentrant, a ditch, then the stream junction. I continued out to the field left of the line. I went around the green to spike it. | ||||||
| 11. | +02:45 | I didn't see the trail option and instead started north to use the fields. Reaching the ridge, I was confused by the Juniper forest on the map when it seemed like white woods to me. I came down the ridge and spur to the stream, crossing my route to #8. Coming up over the ridge I set a rough bearing. and emerged just to the right of the control. However, I mistook the gully for the large reentran further left. The gully was much broader than mapped. I thus passed the gully with the control and ran down the hillside a little to see if I missed it. I could match-up the houses and knew I was close. As I searched in the direction of #12, I saw Peggy coming back. I should have known she had already made a mistake an was headed back but instead, I kept going to the end of the ridge, then ran on top back to the control. Another guy was leaving as I closed-in. | |||||
| 12. | +00:15 | I retraced my steps on the ridge and down the nose to the stream. I was trying to catch the guy who left just ahead of me but I was too tired. Perhaps going down first would have been faster. After crossing the stream, I lost sight of the other guy. Recognizing som open areas, I cut right 90 degrees to drop into the gully. | |||||
| 13. | +00:15 | Rushing and still tired, I made a mental error on this one. I just took off straight instead of using the trail. By the time I saw it on the map, I had already picked my way in the woods for over 100m. I was still tentative at how far down the control was. | |||||
| F. | Trying to lift my knees a bit--I was glad it was downhill. |
Total Time Lost - 00:03:50