Race Evaluation
US Team Trials: Day 2: Red/Brown
Nadim
| 1. | +00:20 | Still sick but feeling a little better than the day before. I was wishy washy on this leg. I started straight, thought to reduce climb by going around to the right, changed my mind and took the trail left to the intersection, then read my way in. | |||||
| 2. | +00:15 | I went straight and followed the reentrant down. I was unsure at the end and looked at the left spur first before cutting back to the control | |||||
| 3. | I went pretty straight, reading the edge of the hill to go in at the end. | ||||||
| 4. | +04:45 | I thought to reduce climb but going right and using the ride. I got a bit low but into the right reentrant. Following it up, the reentrant appeared to me to be ending. It really was cutting right (I saw some streamers on the ground). I chickened out and climbed out left. After doing an up and down loop, I went to the small building and mostly walked in from there. I saw the streamers again which were marking hazardous metal. | |||||
| 5. | I walked most of this going straight from field clearing to field clearing. There were the makings of an elephant path in places. I was surprised at how deep the reentrant at the end was. I would have liked to have seen the radio telescope on the longer way around. | ||||||
| 6. | +00:15 | Going to the power line bend, then the trail intersection, I started down one ridge too early. When it ran out, I read more carefully and went over one. I was a little low at the end. | |||||
| 7. | Going to the power line bend, then the trail intersection, I started down one ridge too early. When it ran out, I read more carefully and went over one. I was a little low at the end. | ||||||
| 8. | +00:50 | I thought about going left but worried about the climb and an attack point. I also didn't realize that going right would climb as much as it did. I went right, up the trail and read my way from the last intersection. Again, I'd veered left away from the control near the end an got onto the wrong spur. I cut right after a small loop. | |||||
| 9. | +00:15 | I ran straightish, using the reentrants but crossed at least one ridge. Upon crossing the road at the formline reentrant, I ran straight and true. I read the vegetation to take me to the spur but got a bit confused thinking the control was below the spur, not to the left of it. As I corrected, another guy was leaving the control. | |||||
| 10. | I ran around the hill on the left side. I passed a cairn but couldn't pinpoint it on the map. This worried me a bit. Going on, I rounded the hill and read reentrants. I was tempted to leave one spur much too early but held to my plan, convinced by the largness of the last knoll. I crossed paths with the runner who left #9 before I did. I coughed and stumbled, cluing him in to turn back toward me but I stayed ahead. | ||||||
| 11. | I ran straightish, going left at the trail to get around an unmapped patch of green. I was unsure of myself for a short while but saw the control from far off. I contoured a little at the end. | ||||||
| 12. | I ran straight. Crossing the road, I recognized the car near the start triangle. I crossed the next reentrant wanting to pinpoint my location but was again unsure. I climbed out a side reentrant which I think was the one with the boulder only I never noticed the boulder. Continuing straight, I read a break in the vegetation and adjusted right a bit--it was the mapped break between slash and light green. As I approached, 3 others appeared from my right and punched ahead of me. | ||||||
| 13. | +01:00 | Two women runners appeared to me to be on the same Red course that I was on. One hesitated and went right a bit. I came in and out of #12 quick, choosing a route a bit left of straight. I ran too much on the flat near the end and should have stayed on the curving ridge till it started to drop. I ended up a bit left and stopped when I saw the trail ahead. My correction was quick but not before the guy whom I'd passed at #9 had caught up. | |||||
| 14. | I ran straightish but wasn't reading well. I felt pressure to stay ahead of the guy I'd seen at #11. After crossing the trail and climbing the ridge, I was surprised to see the control down more, but also happy. | ||||||
| 15. | I got confused partly from the course leg # markings on the map and partly by running faster to stay ahead of the guy who had caught up to me again. I hesitated a while before figuring out that I did indeed have another control to go to. I left #14 with the guy whom I'd seen since #9. Fortuneately, it was mostly downhill and I could still generate some anerobic effort. I pulled ahead. | ||||||
| F. | Following the streamers and cutting a bit left at the end to try to stay out of soft gravel. |
Total Time Lost - 00:07:40