1. | A bit of a grunt, but not a difficult leg. Ran down the spur until I saw the saddle and went left to the control. | ||||||
2. | Grunt. | ||||||
3. | +00:10 | Missed just a bit left. Corrected quickly. | |||||
4. | +00:30 | Went further right than I should have to stay in contact. Had some trouble picking out the mapped rock from the unmapped rock on the hillside. | |||||
5. | +01:00 | Ran the leg well, but then just when I could have contoured into the control, I dropped down too low and got stuck below the big rockface. | |||||
6. | Attacked from the saddle and counted reentrants over. Didn't really need to - as soon as I counted the fourth reentrant, I spotted the bag still 200m away. | ||||||
7. | A bit right, but no time lost. | ||||||
8. | Good leg, really running hard at this point. Spotted David Frei leaving the control (he started 4 min ahead). | ||||||
9. | More hard running. Caught and passed David while ascending through the field. The trail might be mapped a bit low; I didn't hit it until almost all the way across the field. | ||||||
10. | +00:30 | Started up the right side of the reentrant system and ended up getting pushed further right than I would have liked. The reentrant tops were deeper than I expected. | |||||
11. | More hard running. Attacked from the top of the reentrant just E of the control. | ||||||
12. | Lost contact with the map through the light green, so I just turned E until I had good visibility again and then went up the reentrant to the control. Dangerous, but I didn't lose any time. | ||||||
13. | +01:30 | Had the wrong boulder circled on my map (I had the one on the S edge of the circle). Ran right to it, then spent about 20 seconds looking around. I heard Mark Geldemeier above me and looked up to see him punching the control. Dumb mistake, especially since we marked maps off the clock. | |||||
14. | Intentionally went a bit right to avoid getting caught above the cliff. | ||||||
F. | Long run-in across a mowed field. |
Total Time Lost - 00:03:40