Race Evaluation
DVOA Fair Hill Classic: Green X 1
PBricker
| 1. | Since I often botch the first control, if there's a reasonable safe route, I take it. In this case, I went around along the field edge. Maybe 10-15 seconds faster to go straight (assuming I had spiked it going straight!). | ||||||
| 2. | +01:00 | Having taken the easy route to 1, this in effect became my first control, so I botched it. Got left, and went to a flag on a rootstock (brown); then drifted over into the right area, but with no plan and didn't find it right away. | |||||
| 3. | Left of line on dry ground. Crossed one steam, hesitated, saw I needed to cross another, and found it pretty quickly. Not reading the map very well without maginification. | ||||||
| 4. | Between the out-of-bounds areas, to the trail junction, along the trail a bit, and contoured to it, seeing the root stock in front of it from a distance. | ||||||
| 5. | +02:00 | Short leg, so why bother to read the map? Thought I was right of the thicket on line, but I was left of it. When I saw a big rootstock along the river, I mistook it for the one N of the control; it was the one ENE. So I headed way too far east before coming back for it. | |||||
| 6. | Stayed left of line, took the trail around the corner, and then spiked it. | ||||||
| 7. | Basically straight. A bit risky with no attack point, but there were good catching features if I missed it. I spiked it. | ||||||
| 8. | +01:30 | Decided to go straight through the woods rather than attack from the field to the north. I came in a bit south to the marsh, but didn't see the flag as I went by, and didn't see any dot knoll NW of the marsh, so I continued to the first real knoll E of the marsh, where there was a flag. Not mine (which was no surprise). I came back to the marsh, headed northwest and found it on the other side of a root stock. Where was the dot knoll? | |||||
| 9. | May have drifted a bit right of line before I crossed the stream, but no problem with this one. | ||||||
| 10. | Picked a very bad (and painful) place to cross into the open field. I should have gone south to the trail. No problem after that. I checked the number of the control on the marsh, but no time lost since it was right in my path. | ||||||
| 11. | Delayed a bit by a group of horses crossing the stream at the trail where I had planned to cross. I crossed a bit further up. Went through the marsh (which was ankle deep) before the control instead of around it, but otherwise no problem. | ||||||
| 12. | Straight to it. | ||||||
| 13. | Didn't notice the hole in the fence, so went around. | ||||||
| F. | Never had any fast-twitch muscles. |
Total Time Lost - 00:04:30