Race Evaluation
Hudson Highlander: Highlander
jjcote
| 1. | Somewhere in the middle of this leg, I saw Ali heading left while the rest of the crowd was going right, and I followed her. Before long I was by myself in the middle of some laurel, then I struggled out to the unmapped trail and took that until I got to where the main group was streaming by. | ||||||
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| 4. | This time it was my own decision to go right while everybody else was heading left, because it looked pretty thick on their line. That put me in a bunch of green anyway, with KenSr behind me, but it seemed to work out okay, and I don't really think I lost much time. | ||||||
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| 6. | I made good time on this leg, until the very end, when I made a parallel error and was on the next hill to the NW. When I crossed the reentrannt, all of the people I had gotten ahead of had caught back up. | ||||||
| 7. | With a crowd of people who almost went between the wrong two marshes (heading S instead of W), but Peggy objected, and I saw that she was right. | ||||||
| 8. | Down the reentrant right behind PG, I might have gone one reentrant too far if I hadn't been in a crowd. | ||||||
| 9. | Found a sweet unmapped trail on the left side of the marshes that led most of the way to the control, and made good time. | ||||||
| 10. | Almost straight down to the road, cut in at the power line. | ||||||
| 11. | Small things helped me gain a smidge on the people ahead of me: I went directly W out of the control to avoid the fight getting to the dirt road, and then cut the corner by the building to get to the paved road. | ||||||
| 12. | Just behind a pack of about six people to begin with, but I got ahead of them all at the three-way power-line junction when they all got baffled. Two cadets got ahead of me, then they stopped on the road because they were confused, then passed me again. We caught Katia and Pafi shortly after the turn and were with them until the end. We fell off the trail to the right on the final descent and had to find our way back up. | ||||||
| 13. | Didn't feel like taking the obvious trail back up over the mountain, so I contoured around to the left, which I think could have been a pretty good route if done well. I lost a bit of time early on by getting aught in some green near marshes, then lost track of what I was doing and navigated cleanly to #17. It wasn't until after I punched that I realized something was amiss. Pretty easy getting to #13 from there, ariving at the same time as the two cadets. | ||||||
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| 15. | Right-hand trail route, trying to move quickly and get away from the cadets. Went pretty far aound on the last trail to get past the green. Alan Young caught up at the control (he had started 30 minutes late to deal with epunch stuff). | ||||||
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| 17. | Alan went further right, I went pretty straight, but got caught in bulletproof vegetation at the power line and had to back out and take the trail to get through. | ||||||
| 18. | White corridor to the right of the line was pretty sweet, a bit right of the line while making the climb as well. Spotted Jeff Saeger punching as I apprached the control. | ||||||
| 19. | Catching up to Jeff, glad he was heading into the control ahead of me, because the circle obscured a critical contour, and I couldn't figure out what was going on. | ||||||
| 20. | Left Jeff behind, had a (different) cadet on a parallel route through the camp. Found a sweet pipeline bridge to get across the power line, but once I got into the overmapped area on the other side, I had trouble following where I was, and got too high and to the right, so that the cadet caught up when I corrected and got to the control. | ||||||
| 21. | Down to the trail, left the road late because I didn't have the ambition to face the cliffs and green, so I had to hook back to the control. Cadet ahead. | ||||||
| 22. | Cadet left road early and I never saw him again. Jeremy Colgan caught up in here somewhere. | ||||||
| 23. | Right of the inethe whole way, Jeremy gradually pulling away. Lost contact shortly before the control, but I climbed up, spotted a marsh, and saw that I was almost there. | ||||||
| 24. | Caught Rick DeWitt. | ||||||
| 25. | Passed Yekaterina and Yevgeniy, who were lying down. Right of the line, across the stream and up the power line to the road, took the road past the worst of the cliffs before climbing up and over. | ||||||
| 26. | Rick was coming in from the NNE as I was leaving. Left the road to climb Good Spring Mtn. at the power line. | ||||||
| 27. | Rick was coming up from the road as I was leaving the control. Unsure of myself appraoching the control, so I was moving slowly, but I was right on target. | ||||||
| 28. | My undoing. Drifted left, hit the power line at the junction. That made for an easy crossing and a clean route through the white marshes to within a short distance of the control. At that point I got confused, and went over to check out some other cliffs to the N that looked really big in the terrain, but are quite small on the map. I managed to relocate and go to the right place, but not before about four people apparently got past me. | ||||||
| 29. | Right of the line, contouring. | ||||||
| 30. | Almost straight, just a bit left to get to the road. Another fine Highlander! | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:00:00