1. | Some difficult route choice, but after a bit of deliberation, I decided to take the trail up | ||||||
2. | P | Followed along the yellow and then cut to the trail, hitting at the junction. Approach from the junction was quite easy. | |||||
3. | P | +00:20 | I went back to the trail, going right at the trail junction and I crossed to the hillside when the swamp started to look less swamp-like. Contoured around into the re-entrant and hesitated a little as I worried I was too high, but then stopped doubting my first instinct and went up to find the control | ||||
4. | I got back to the main trail as quickly as I could and I ran along until it started to go down and the hillside started to pull away. Once I got into the woods the spur was quite obvious | ||||||
5. | Slow up the hill--not feeling physically fit enough for this climb or the climb to come | ||||||
6. | R | +03:30 | My first bad route choice was this leg. We had talked the day before about avoiding dropping just to climb again, so after looking at the obvious run down the trail and up the stream, I decided to contour around. This was really not the right choice. Had it been less rocky it wouldn't have been quite as bad, but I was moving very slowly and lost a lot of time. Attackpoint thinks I lost 2:30, I think it was a bit more because of the route choice and hesitation that it caused. | ||||
7. | R | +02:30 | Second bad route choice in some ways. At this point Alex had caught up to me, and I recognized that being with her would make me push more, and the way she was going meant not climbing an extra 13ish contours to the top of the hill, a route which I had already been eyeing, so I decided to go right around the dark green. I only just beat Kirsten on this leg (she went up and to the left), and she had a little bobble at the end, so she would probably have been faster without that, making me think that way was faster. I ended up at the fourish way trail junction and crossed each trail checking off things on my way to make sure I wasn't dropping or climbing too much. | ||||
8. | D | P | With my route to seven, I had already done a bunch of this leg, so I was confident on the first bit, and from there I knew I just needed to hit the trail to get to the trail connecting the two slopes, which was easy to hit, so I was moving well (I actually got ahead of Alex by a few steps at this point!). | ||||
9. | +00:05 | I went back across through the yellow and dropped on the second trail instead of dropping immediately and crossing through the white. I left the trail a little high and had to go down and back a little in the woods but it wasn't awful. Alex got back ahead of me by a teeny bit at this point. | |||||
10. | D | +00:05 | I dropped a little low on this leg, crossing the stonewall on the lower half and the stream at one of the trail crossings, so I had to climb up again, but I didn't loose a ton of time. | ||||
11. | Pretty straightforward, checking off things along the ski trails. I stayed a little high to make sure I would know where I was when I hit the trail where 11 was on the edge. I entered the woods a little high which slowed me down a little but, but it was better than missing the end of the wall and having to climb back up. | ||||||
12. | I went straight down and to the flat instead of cutting through any of the white | ||||||
F. |
Total Time Lost - 00:06:30