Race Evaluation
US Team Trials: Day 3: Blue
jjcote
| 1. | Across the green to the lower trail, around the SW side of the hill and in from there. Saw Christoph for the first time. | ||||||
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| 3. | Between the two marshes left of the line, and up the big reentrant. | ||||||
| 4. | Left of the line, bounced off the trail. | ||||||
| 5. | Pretty close to the line the whole way. | ||||||
| 6. | Stayed high. | ||||||
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| 8. | N to road, trails as long as possible, then missed (and saw Dylan) and hit the trail NW of the control. Bounced back easily from there. | ||||||
| 9. | Trail to about halway, dodging MTBs, then skirted the S edge of the crossable marsh and cut through the field, and soon afterr that encountered Christoph who had taken all trails and caught up. We ran together from there, N of the big marsh, and passed Tim. Thick getting in to the control. | ||||||
| 10. | Dogleg back out, S to campground where I was passed by Tex. We took different trail choices, and at one point I saw him up ahead, but I was confused as to where I was, and took a wrong turn, heading S toward the two lakes. I think Sandstrom was coming up from behind right then. It cut through the yellow N of the W lake, but the yellow was nasty. Once I got through it, the woods were okay, and as I topped the hill before the control, I caught a glimpse of two people leaving (Sandstrom and Schirm, maybe?). | ||||||
| 11. | David Onkst arrived at #10 just ahead of me, and he was right behind me for the next 7 controls. | ||||||
| 12. | Trail to SW of the control — didn't want to risk going through any more multiflora than I had to. | ||||||
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| 15. | Straight, between the marshes. | ||||||
| 16. | Almost didn't see the control, but I looked again and spotted the bottles further to my right. | ||||||
| 17. | Yikes! Clockwise around the big depression, but instead of clibing the hill, I got myself into the area of assorted dpressions, and didn't know what was what. Just kept going SE,and when I saw the clearing down the hill tomy right, I turned left and climbed, saw the big depression ahead, and went to thr right spot. Phew! David arrived just after me and this was the last I saw of him. | ||||||
| 18. | E through the crud to the campground, then took the trail along the S edge of the big open area. Tex caught back up in here after having erred earlier, and slowly pulled away. Went right past #4, and almost blew it at the last moment near the control, but pulled my head back together. | ||||||
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| 22. | SE to trail on ridge, then zigged and zagged on trails to get close, and headed down through what was supposed to be white woods to the depression N of the control. It was horrible. Thrashed through the vegetation, knew where I was going but it took a long time to get there. | ||||||
| 23. | Got to the right spot, didn't see a control in the reentrant, but since I couldn't see the green on the map I figured I must be in the wrong place anyway. Circled around confused, and saw the control on my second look, from a different angle. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:00:00