Race Evaluation
US Champs: Day 2 Green Y
Charlie
| 1. | Road until the bend to the NE, then on compass across the ridge, through the reentrant and up the northern reentrant to the control | ||||||
| 2. | Across the stream and up up up the spur left of the stream flowing S. Checking off reentrants on the left and over the top, coming in a little low. Certainly a very shallow reentrant. | ||||||
| 3. | Pretty much straight, looking for the streambed flowing NE after the road and following it down, going up the spur S of control for a while before switching to right up the reentrant. | ||||||
| 4. | On pointy spur R of line, past rootstock in reentrant and straight in. | ||||||
| 5. | Tough time climbing the hill. Saw Mary Jones walking a bit to my left and had a very hard time keeping pace running. Anyway, straight on the line to top of reentrant past road, then failed to execute my plan. Darn! I had intended to follow the streambed and then up the spur to the control, but instead (ok, I was tired) went straight, bouncing up and down over spurs and through green, hitting the right spur just right of the knoll right of control. No problem getting there, just a bit slow. | ||||||
| 6. | +00:30 | Just right of line to stay on high ground, and to check off rootstocks for final attack. Stopped short at a ditch (maybe the mapped one W of control, but seemed different), then pressed on and left and in. | |||||
| 7. | Pretty straight going up and over the large spur and past the ditch NNW of the control and straight in. | ||||||
| 8. | Straight again. The reentrant on the line 100 m before the control was pretty big. | ||||||
| 9. | Reasonably straight. Some others on this leg, including Mal Harding. | ||||||
| 10. | Fairly straight. | ||||||
| 11. | +00:45 | Didn't see the "mandatory" crossing, and headed down the trail NE. Then remembered there was supposed to be one and started looking for it, so back to the crossing, then in a pack along the trail through the thick green. | |||||
| 12. | A little slow going up the hill. Behind Mal, who was going to a different control, but aiming for the NE building in the little group near the control and hitting it right on. Control was further down the ditch than I expected, which was a little unsettling but otherwise fine. | ||||||
| 13. | Moving a little faster, but hit the reentrant a bit low and had to climb over the log. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:01:15