Race Evaluation
Ontario Champs: Middle Distance Course 6
mikeminium
| 1. | pretty clean, trail all the way to marsh. things acme up fast getting used to 1:7500 map. | ||||||
| 2. | pretty clean, trail then north along the ridge top, a little greener than it looked & rough under foot. | ||||||
| 3. | +00:05 | NW across marshes & up reentrant to path, then north on path up hill past reentrant, cut left and countoured. hesitated a little too soon, but kept going & it worked. | |||||
| 4. |
Hesitated | north, bounced off the trail, then turned right to control. Discussing routes with a coupel other orienteers, they thought it was better to go straight, but I had the fastest split for the leg. Bouncing off the trail was great for confidence & keeping moving. | |||||
| 5. |
Hesitated | short leg between marshes. careful. | |||||
| 6. |
Bad map reading +00:45 | long leg, lots of trail, cut a couple corners. Leaving last trail before control, went too much east and not enough north, getting into overgrown reentrant, then having to cross an extra ridge. fortunately, I recovered contact quickly. | |||||
| 7. | short leg, across depression between knolls; navigated carefully & precisely. | ||||||
| 8. | short leg, across large depression to reentrant on west side. map and terrain made perfect sense, did it quickly. | ||||||
| 9. | +00:10 | route choice with marshes in the way, stayed north of marshes and hit trail, waited just a little too long to go into woods and kind of arced back to control, losing just a few seconds | |||||
| 10. |
Bad route choice +00:10 | questionable route choice, NE to trail and trail all the way... hard to tell whether crossing the green lowlands would have been faster (people who did had faster splits, but I still don't know how you could tell for sure based on experience with green & marshes on this map... it could have been really bad. I think I made a safe choice. Approaching the control, I should have stayed on trail a little longer instead of cutting north thru green, and that cost a few seconds. | |||||
| 11. | careful map reading to hit the correct trail, fastest split on this leg. | ||||||
| 12. | north, then left along edge of field, limited only by running speed. | ||||||
| F. | fast marked run-in. |
Total Time Lost - 00:01:10