Race Evaluation
QOC: River Bend: Red
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| 1. | Jon Torrance had already finished at 47 minutes and Randy Hall at 53 minutes. Dave Onkst chalenged me to match it. No problem. I decided to run hard. Usual leg, Drop a little low to avoid green, past creek and along edge of hill. | ||||||
| 2. |
Did not like map +00:20 | Started up hill then quickly dogged leg back to creek to avoid extra climb. Up hill. Looking for clearing but didn't see it. Saw control before telephone pole | |||||
| 3. | Thought about taking low route but decided that it wouldn't be any practice. Went straight to road bend, then read contours to control. | ||||||
| 4. | straight | ||||||
| 5. | Took the low route here. Down trail, through fields, down hill of house to spur. | ||||||
| 6. | Slow up hill to trail, trail to bend, shoot into control. | ||||||
| 7. | +00:45 | Out to west trail. hit trail right at junction. Past first trail which wasn't there but the clearing still is. Cut in at 2nd trail. Little left of control. Map said control hung 10 meters above trail. I though control was low (only 5 meters above trail). | |||||
| 8. | +00:30 | Cut low to trail. Up trail. Never saw trail junctions so overran cut in point. As I got closer to clearing I cut in and read contours to control. | |||||
| 9. | +00:15 | Down Reentrant to trail. Trail to bridge. Cut up hill. As I approached the control I thought, Hmmm, this looks familiar. I had run to 4 and not to 9. 4 was close to nine to no real time lost. | |||||
| 10. | No brainer. Straight to trail road. Key on road bend. Shoot into field. Lots of people standing at control so no problem finding. | ||||||
| 11. |
Did not like map +00:20 | Out to trail through field. Eventually trail bent away so I cut through the field. Ran by some building but don't know which one of it was in the map. I was way left of the saddle. I think the saddle is farther from the road than mapped (of course it is never my mistake).Picked up map at map exchange. | |||||
| 12. | +01:00 | Last loop was that long. Straight, making sure I climbed to get above the house. Straight to 2nd trail. Up trail. I cut into woods to far right and ended up to high. Corrected but ended up at northern gully. Look puzzled as I couldn't see other gully. About then John Dunn came from other area. Ran over there. Other gully wasn't as big as north one although map said it was. | |||||
| 13. | Straight chasing after John Dunn. He was to high. | ||||||
| 14. | +00:30 | Down first trail to bend. Control circle hid contours so I ran down spur but spur was broader than I thought. Had to cut back up hill once I got to end of spur. | |||||
| 15. |
Disturbed by others +00:15 | Straight. Got a little left. Hit the trail and wondered why I couldn't see control. Someone was standing in from of it. | |||||
| 16. | Bolted down the hill. Trouble making turn in parking lot without skidding on spikes. | ||||||
| F. | Straight to finish. |
Total Time Lost - 00:03:55