Split Analysis
GEORGIA NAVIGATOR CUP: Day 1 Red
Cristina
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| # | dist | time | place | delta | score | lost* | pace | dist | time | place | delta | pace | comments | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. | 1280m | 15:51 | 2 | +2:30 | 19% | 2:00 | 12:22 | 1280m | 15:51 | 2 | +2:30 | 19% | 12:22 | I'm wasn't surprised when I flipped over the map and saw this long leg to start because I didn't really know what I could trust to see off of the map. I didn't have a problem keeping track of my forward progress, but left and right was a bit harder. At the bottom of the big spur I did know exactly where I was, where the ditch runs into the stream, so I knew I was left and crossed over the rocky top of the spur. Headed over the top and went right to the reentrant and didn't see the control, so I went back to the left and wandered around for a bit. Eventually I figured I just must not have gone far enough and went back. I'm pretty sure I was just above the control and never saw it the first time. Bummer. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. | 400m | 3:21 | 1 | -30 | -13% | 8:22 | 1680m | 19:12 | 2 | +2:00 | 12% | 11:25 | No problems here, ran the line and you could see the bag from across the main reentrant. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. | 680m | 8:37 | 2 | +12 | 2% | 30 | 12:40 | 2360m | 27:49 | 2 | +2:12 | 9% | 11:47 | Suffered from reverse contour issues here, thinking that the big reentrant curling up to the control was a weirdly shaped spur. Took more than a few seconds to figure that out, then no problems. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. | 670m | 9:14 | 2 | +2:14 | 32% | 2:00 | 13:46 | 3030m | 37:03 | 2 | +4:26 | 14% | 12:13 | Went way right of the line for no good reason. I'm still not sure what I was seeing when I hit the first trail, because it looked like a really big reentrant and there's nothing like that where I could have been. I was pretty confused. In any case, my solution was to take the trail up to just before all the rocks to get a positive awareness of my position and then contoured across the spur, checked off the rocky stuff to my left and hit the boulder. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 5. | 450m | 5:23 | 2 | +44 | 16% | 11:57 | 3480m | 42:26 | 2 | +5:10 | 14% | 12:11 | Mildly contoured around the spur and hit the trail by the rocky features and right over to the little reentrant. The control seemed to be a lot further than it seemed on the map. Another one of those short distance deceptions. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 6. | 450m | 5:09 | 2 | +1:04 | 26% | 11:26 | 3930m | 47:35 | 2 | +6:14 | 15% | 12:06 | Went just right of the line, probably wouldn't have hurt to hop on the trail for half of it, since it was just next to me. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 7. | 500m | 5:59 | 1 | -1:07 | -16% | 1:30 | 11:58 | 4430m | 53:34 | 2 | +5:07 | 11% | 12:05 | This one was a little trickier. Planned to run down the hillside aiming right until I hit the second trail, then dropping down the secont reentrant. Would have worked had I seen the first trail. Crossed the second one expecting and then realized that I must have passed both of them, so I just kind of haphazardly headed left and down the first reentrant. Since I could tell that there was another one further left, I knew that had to be it and hopped over the little nose, ended up below the control. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 8. | 510m | 5:20 | 1 | -1:17 | -19% | 1:00 | 10:27 | 4940m | 58:54 | 2 | +3:50 | 7% | 11:55 | Planned to run just left of the mild spur and then cutting right at the rootstocks. But at the rootstocks I spied a bag in a "ditch" and went straight for it. I was actually in the stream well to the left of the control, but that was clear so I was able to get to the right place quickly. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 9. | 900m | 13:20 | 2 | +14 | 2% | 3:30 | 14:48 | 5840m | 1:12:14 | 2 | +4:04 | 6% | 12:22 | This was a big booboo. Plenty of features along the line to collect, and I thought I was doing a great job doing so. Crossed the stream just right of the marsh, knew I was just right of the line. Passed the next stream right of the intersection, knew I was still about the same amount right, so I was on a good line. Shut the brain off, crossed the ridge and dropped right down to... number 10! The intersection by the second stream was actually the intersection ~150m downstream from the one I thought I was on. Should have been obvious had I continued to read the map well. At least I knew where I was when I got there, even though I didn't realize it was 10 until I was already on my way towards 9, so at least I knew I was right of the bag... | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 10. | 310m | 2:42 | 1 | -8 | -5% | 8:42 | 6150m | 1:14:56 | 2 | +3:56 | 6% | 12:11 | Well, this was pretty straight forward, plus I'd already been there... | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 11. | 360m | 3:00 | 1 | -44 | -20% | 8:20 | 6510m | 1:17:56 | 2 | +3:12 | 4% | 11:58 | This was the one leg where I actually measured the distance and tried pace counting, but I did both poorly and ran into the bag rather a bit by luck, well before I thought I should have. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 12. | 820m | 7:49 | 2 | +16 | 4% | 20 | 9:31 | 7330m | 1:25:45 | 2 | +3:28 | 4% | 11:41 | I should have been able to just blast through this leg, given the wonderful backstop of the stream and the big corner right before the control. But I didn't realize that until I got really close, so my approach for the last 200 meters or so was good, beating out a pair of people who'd been gaining ground ahead of me on the rest of the leg. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 13. | 260m | 2:20 | 1 | -1:11 | -34% | 10 | 8:58 | 7590m | 1:28:05 | 2 | +2:17 | 3% | 11:36 | I was actually confused here and wanted to cross the stream to go straight to the control, rather than along the big horsey trail. I guess I'd gotten into straight line mode pretty heavily. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 14. | 170m | 1:08 | 2 | +32 | 89% | 6:40 | 7760m | 1:29:13 | 3 | +2:49 | 3% | 11:29 | What a brutal finish shute! Yikes! Pretty exhausted. And bleeding on all four major appendages! | |||||||||||||||||||||
* red = reported, gray = calculated