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2007 USOF Convention and Colorado 5-Days: Red

bshields's comments - by leg

1. Time Lost: 02:30haven't run on 1:15 in a while, got confused and went down the reentrant N of the correct one
2. Time Lost: 04:00Apparently still not used to the scale. Went down a reentrant way N of control. Mega loss of time.
3. Time Lost: 01:00Seemed like I just drifted on this one. Not as bad as the last two errors.
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5. Time Lost: 00:30Went out to the road, bobbled on the knolls S of the actual control.
6. Again, drifted, but as PG would say, sometimes you get lucky.
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8. Left the road at the first right bend, slightly confused by the vegetation in the reentrant, but I trusted myself in bearing off to the right, so I went down the reentrant until I hit the control. Caught up with the Swiss guy (Thomas?)
9. To the right of the line.
10. I decided to avoid the extra climb and go straight out to the road. It was definitely slower (2.5 min) but I think I had a bit more gas later on, so who knows.
11. Kind of went down the side of the spur and then into the reentrant (trying to stick to the least-steep parts). As a side note, this was a really steep place to have the long champs.
12. Up the reentrant to the left of the line, then across the slash and down that shallow reentrant into the control. John Goodwin passed me leaving #11.
13. Back out to the road, walking up the hill. The Halden girl was behind me on this leg, which was motivational. I decided to cut through the last slash before the road. Probably faster to cut less or stay on the road; laziness is borne of fatigue.
14. Right of the line, hit that trail in the green right at the kink which was a great attack point. TG, Halden girl & Thomas were all with me at the control. I think we all stopped for the same 15 seconds to drink up, then diverged and met up again at #15.
15. Again, out to the road. It was silly to have the road as a viable attackpoint for half the controls on this course. Anyway, Ted had some kind of brain fart and ran up the lefthand slope, so I attempted to gracefully punch and leave without indicating that I had found the bag. I don't think it worked, but it was kind of fun.
16. Apparently Ted had another fart on this leg, but I was too busy "chasing" JJ. Kind of reminds me of the time my mom got pulled over for not turning right in a right-turn-only lane. After a 10mph chase, she finally realized that the cop was trying to pull her over, so she stopped. The cop's comment was "well, I can't really call it a high-speed chase...".... yeah, so I was basically staggering along behind JJ.
17. Still staggering, but now passed JJ.
18. Boy, that was a useless addition of climb and length. WTF, yo?! Anyway, I had enough to outrun my followers into the finish.
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Total Time Lost - 00:08:00

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