Second in a trio of Terrible Runs. Didn't I say to never run and work a meet?
Arrived at the map line with my beeper going. Forgot HRM and too late to go back. Forgot to leave my cap behind, left it at the starter table.
Grabbed my map and went.
1. Atrocious. Idea was OK, but I should have checked the small path better - especially after cutting the corner. Went off into left field mistaking ditch after ditch. Reset to the road and found it pretty quickly, but not very precisely.
2. Wobbled through the green to the road, then along to attackpoint at edge of clearing on road. Tried to spot form line topography and utterly failed. When I realized I was going east and downhill I turned dead north with the hope of finding the northern slope and luckily hit the control.
3. Short and clean.
4. Crap again. Went right by it. Stopped at the rootstock and came back.
5. Took the road to the north and planned to pick up veg boundary and contour to marsh. Felt that the marshes were very dry, but realized there was some risk. A bit slow crossing, but pretty good route. Feeling a bit better. Bumped into GL.
6. GL took off like a shot on the trail, but we met at the control.
7. Through spectator chute. Met GL at control. Huh?
8. Long leg parallel to river. Took easy path along riverbank. Met GL again at powerline. Ran together to creek, then GL ran low and I ran high. GL ran into muck and had to come high, passing again at 11 - which was nice to scope out. Was a little too far east when spotted 8 and GL came in from west and was well away before I got to 8.
9. Decided to run along south side of creek. Lots of debris. Checked of reentrants on the south side. Planned to go directly east up reentrant, checking hilltop to the south, then cross reentrant to find rootstock. Crossed a little to the north.
10.Directly north then spike.
11. Decide to head uphill to road. Somehow headed east instead of north, but quickly corrected. Ran off the end of the road onto the trail and off the end of the trail into the green. Recognized where I was and turned north to the control. Passed GL without seeing him on this leg.
12. Rough compass to the powerline corner. Contoured in to control.
13. Trail-parking lot-trail then cut corner to control.
F. Long run in.
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