Discussion: Sweet

That's a nice feature of winsplits. I found it did a better job picking up my mistakes when set to 10% instead of 25%.

By the way, as someone who's tried to keep up with you in rough terrain, I can confirm that your theory is correct (especially going downhill). Some of it may be that you can read the map on the move even when the footing is bad. I for one have to choose between slowing way down, or going without enough maptime, leading to mistakes.

I'll take you on in rough terrain. I think that I've developed the skill of reading the map while moving quickly through rough terrain without slowing down. What I need now is speed and hill climbing strength...

I'm actually not that good at reading while moving when the footing is bad. Instead I have a tendency to keep moving while I either try to memorize what I'm seeing so that I can figure out where I am when I stop, or else just keep going with my fingers crossed. That got me into trouble on the early part of the course Saturday, but I kept it under control more on Sunday.

This place might have been good for you, Christoph. Rough footing, and no hills to speak of. But there were places where trail-running speed was helpful.

3rd on the classic day--way to go!

It sure doesn't sound like a terrain type where one would have been well prepared from some of our typical WY/CO terrains, but I've seen and heard enough comments from folks who went that it's clear that GHO did a very nice job with the event itself--always great to hear.