Race Evaluation
US Champs: Day 2 Blue
ebone
| 1. | Forgot to clear and check my SI card again, so I had to go do that and re-punch the start. This didn't cause me to make a mistake, but it's unusual for me. Took the road to the spur then essentially South to the control, passing close to the cairn on the hill (although I didn't look for it or see it). | ||||||
| 2. | +00:05 | Down the gully, then pretty straight. Hesitated a bit before climbing through the green; missed the control a bit low. | |||||
| 3. | +00:05 | A bit over-cautious on this one. Pretty straight--should have gone a bit left around green. | |||||
| 4. | +00:15 | Banked a little map reading on this leg, which caused me to take my attention off the terrain for too long. Slowed significantly to regain contact just after I crossed the watercourse. | |||||
| 5. | +00:10 | Pretty straight. Probably overcautious, given the clearing en-route and strong features near the control. | |||||
| 6. | +00:45 | Decided straight was best, but I meant to go around the green and ended up going through it. Searched the erosion gully that is covered by the control circle, even though the spur before it seemed too small. | |||||
| 7. | +00:15 | Reading ahead, so I went too slowly down the hill to the stream, then lost direction control after the steep climb and slowed down to regain orientation and map contact. | |||||
| 8. | SSW to the road, then attacked carefully from the road bend. | ||||||
| 9. | Blasted to the trail, hitting a bit right at the foot of the green spur. Cut left around the green, then got back on the line, more or less. Meant to miss the mapped dark green to the left but had to climb over some big downed logs. | ||||||
| 10. | +00:20 | At the watercourse about 2/3 of the way to the control, I was just left of the line in the shallow reentrant. I wanted to aim off a bit left, but I overdid it, came to the large reentrant, hesitated, then traversed the hillside to the control. | |||||
| 11. | +00:15 | Ran to the road with pretty good speed, making sure to come to the saddle where the line crosses the road. I proceeded from there a bit too cautiously, given the fact that I was aiming for a hilltop, with nearly zero chance for a parallel error. | |||||
| 12. | +01:00 | Went left to the road (slower than straight), then went back into the forest about 80m after the sharp bend (and crossing). I was a bit unsure about whether I knew which reentrant I was crossing, then I got a little turned around in the green on the ridge (~300m from the control), but I caught myself and went on to hit it okay. | |||||
| 13. | Straight. | ||||||
| 14. | +00:25 | Decided to bend my route to the left after running down the gully, in order to conserve climb. This was a mistaken strategy, as it needlessly added distance (and didn't save climb). A bit slow to look at my compass on the attack from the top of the ditch (NE of the control). | |||||
| 15. | +00:10 | Went a bit to the left of the line but missed the foot of the gully that led to the control a bit to the right and had to correct. | |||||
| 16. | This control scared me. The nice downhill made it very easy to run down the wrong spur. I was careful to check off the reentrant tops as I passed them. The ridge broadened just before the control, but I kept a lid on my panic, slowed way down, looked around at the terrain, and figured out where the control would be. | ||||||
| 17. | +00:07 | Hesitated because the ditched seemed to go on for too long. | |||||
| 18. | +00:10 | Did fine on this one, except that I didn't see the reentrant near the rootstocks at the watercourse crossing, so I hesitated to try to decide what I had done wrong before deciding that I couldn't be too far off, so I should just aim off a bit to the right. | |||||
| 19. | +00:13 | Went a bit left of straight, but I got confused about where I was and paused when I reached the top of the ridge, before deciding that it didn't matter, because I was running toward a funnel. | |||||
| 20. | +00:08 | Encountered a bit of traffic congestion on this leg and opted to slow down rather than trampling other runners. | |||||
| 21. | Straight out of the control through the mountain laurel. | ||||||
| F. | +00:02 | Started to run to the right then corrected. |
Total Time Lost - 00:04:25