Race Evaluation
: Houghton's Pond Motala
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| 1. | Map order was B-C-A. After having completed B and C, and seen a handful of finishers, I left for my 3rd loop. Where to attack from? I noticed the cliff outside the circle, and slogged up. | ||||||
| 2. | Continued to the trail, to be safe, leaving due N of flag at the equidistant boulder trio that I had noted on an earlier leg. | ||||||
| 3. | +00:30 | Straight, but managed to drift R so that I circled beyond the small knoll before reaching the boulder. | |||||
| 4. | On this, the 3rd of 3 visits to the 312/317 pair, I was determined to check the code first to punch the right one. I noticed 317 that I didn't want as I went by. | ||||||
| 5. | +00:45 | To trail, came in from a bend, using the index contour as a handrail. I could not interpret the contour just above this one because the red line crossed it, obscuring one of the edges. I thought it was two disjoint arcs, and got confused in the woods. The reentrants look plausible, but the visibility was poor. I was one reentrant short. | |||||
| 6. | Straight. Rolled an ankle. | ||||||
| 7. | Finish, at last! Phew. Thanks for Peter Amram for setting a challenging course in such a small area. | ||||||
| 8. | Start of race, following Siobhan #10... | ||||||
| 9. | ... and #11, but she's off the front soon. | ||||||
| 10. | +08:30 | Major walkabout here, loss of contact. Required >1 attempt to relocate from nearby trail. | |||||
| 11. | Grr. Controls 317 and 312 confused me greatly. I punched the wrong one of the two first in 2 out of the 3 encounters. | ||||||
| 12. | Trail to Jct, through the sliver of white, doglegged in the open area. | ||||||
| 13. | Pia (on her 2nd loop) went straight; I contoured. | ||||||
| 14. | +01:30 | Error leaving #15. Intended to run due WNW to paved, instead dropped through the rocks to the trail. | |||||
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| 16. | Left trail where stone wall diverged. | ||||||
| 17. | +01:00 | Up through the wide reentrant, but then got confused and went first to the wrong cluster of boulders. | |||||
| 18. | +00:30 | Second of 3 encounters with 312/317, and once again managed to punch the wrong one first. | |||||
| 19. | Overshot to trail, relocated on the spur abutting the trail, and then back to the rocks. | ||||||
| 20. | +01:00 | Misread the clues, and thought was looking for a cliff (#24, code 323) among the huge boulders. After bouncing between the two clusters of huge boulders, I read the clue correctly, and found the flag. | |||||
| 21. | +00:45 | N to trail, cut in once again from the jct through the sliver of white, and dropped to the cliffs. Probably should have stayed low. | |||||
| F. | Rocky, green reentrant was nasty to cross. |
Total Time Lost - 00:14:30