Race Evaluation
Rocky Mountain 1000 Day: Crystal Relay Leg 4
bishop22
| 1. | Was in the catch-up mass start for the last 14 teams, and I had seen Boris punch the control, so I took off hard, went a bit right to avoid some junk, and almost beat Marty to the bag. | ||||||
| 2. | Down the hill with Marty off to my left. | ||||||
| 3. | Took a better line than Marty and one other guy, so arrived together despite my uphill slowness as I started to pay for the fast start. | ||||||
| 4. | +00:30 | Didn't blindly follow the other two, because I wanted to go left of their line, but went too far left, and had a nasty climb to the control. | |||||
| 5. | +00:15 | Went a little too far right in the woods, but saw the road, so I was able to correct without much loss. | |||||
| 6. | +00:10 | Flew down the hills, but had to walk up a fair amount - missed just right. | |||||
| 7. | Plan was to cross the beaver dams/ponds as early as possible, but didn't see good opportunities, and didn't want to waste time looking while there was a runnable trail on the near side - tough climb to the control. | ||||||
| 8. | Split includes my water break (3 dixie cups), since I punched after drinking because I caught someone right at the control. | ||||||
| 9. | Passed someone on the uphill, so ran most of it. | ||||||
| 10. | +00:05 | Several climbs on this leg - I caught someone else here. Did pause to check the control code one reentrant early. | |||||
| 11. | Intentionally went left of the line to try to avoid some of the climb, but it didn't really work. Did run most of the leg, knowing someone was behind me. | ||||||
| 12. | Straight. | ||||||
| 13. | Went a bit left, but the 4 contours had to be climbed. | ||||||
| 14. | +00:20 | Left the control down the spur right of the line, but corrected. Popped up to the second trail where I wanted to be, but wasn't quite sure, so I looked around a bit, then finished my plan (avoiding the green). I think I passed a couple of people on this leg - I saw someone on the trail, and I led someone else to the control. | |||||
| 15. | THE WALL - 9 countour climb. I walked most of this, even though I knew there were people behind me. Didn't see anyone else that I could catch. | ||||||
| 16. | Thru the start/finish area. Extremely disappointed that Nate and Zach were not there to cheer me on after the wall. Their excuse was that they didn't think I could run that fast. | ||||||
| 17. | May have passed someone here - it looked like someone had overrun the control (or maybe they were doing a warmdown with their map). | ||||||
| 18. | Thought I was left of the line, but saw the bag ahead, so I had to double-check the code. | ||||||
| 19. | Saw someone coming into 18 as I was leaving, so I gave it what I had on this leg, which included a 4-contour climb - had the antenna to aim for, so I didn't need the map/compass. | ||||||
| F. | Long finish - took one peek back and didn't see anyone (turned out they were 50 seconds back - much needless worry) |
Total Time Lost - 00:01:20