Race Evaluation
US Classic Champs: Red Day 2
jeffw
| 1. | Ran straight to the road, figuring that I would go in from the bend to the trail and find the control easily. No such luck. Did some searching around. | ||||||
| 2. | Ran along the stream bed then went up to the 2 big triangles SSW of the control (I think). Attacked from there, but his the little triangle on the left edge of the circle. Did a lot of running around with Ted Good, Terry Farrah, and company. | ||||||
| 3. | Thought I was careful, but screwed this one up as well (so Ted again). I could tell this was going to be a long day. | ||||||
| 4. | Went a little to the right of the line. Hit the sparsely forested area SE of the control. Found it okay. | ||||||
| 5. | Went up the reentrant on the line and over down to the control. | ||||||
| 6. | Hit a big sandy stream, but later hit the real one that I wanted with the big cliff. I proceeded to go way past the control. Saw Ryan Breseman on the way back. | ||||||
| 7. | Went straight looking for the gray rock on the right side. Actually did this one right. Punched in with Ryan and Rick Breseman. | ||||||
| 8. | Took off down the stream bed then contoured around at the rocks. Went up over the broad hill, then over the stony hill. | ||||||
| 9. | Tried to go straight until I hit the trail junction, but I ended up waaaayyy right at the clearing. I saw Jan Ingebritzen coming the opposite way. I thought to myself, wow he must have really screwed up to be way over here. Turns out I was way over there. Damn. At least I was able to work my way over to the control decently from there. | ||||||
| 10. | Went straightish. Saw that I was going towards 3 and told myself that I need to keep going to 10. Saw the big rocky spire NW of the control which momentarily confused me. | ||||||
| 11. | Went to the stream junction, up to one of the man-made objects. Attacked from there. I was still slow into the control. Saw Ryan again. | ||||||
| 12. | Cut over to the trail, but hit control #13 first. As was typical of my day, I still screwed up going to 12 even though it was a short leg. | ||||||
| 13. | Very carefully read everything along the way. | ||||||
| 14. | Attacked from the trail junction NNE of the control. I was going down between 2 cliffs, but I didn't expect it on the map. Passed Anders who was standing there doing nothing (he told me later he was taking pictures). I kept going through the chute and found the control at the end on the left. | ||||||
| 15. | Carefully went to this control, because I didn't want to have a big screw-up with an audience. | ||||||
| F. | One of the few controls I did right, even though I jogged it in. |
Total Time Lost - 00:00:00