Race Evaluation
QOC: Pohick Bay: Green
Nadim
| 1. | +01:00 | Still sick and with my back not healed, I took off. I was surprised going down the hill that my back wasn't hurting and that I had some mobility. I initially planned to go to the road but figured it was too far. As I descended, I had a hard time figureing distance. After getting close, I had the opportunity to jump again to the road but I stayed in the woods. I pulled-up short and had a hard time seeing details. There seemed to be much more going on in the area with gullies and side reentrants. Eventually I went down far enough but if I came off the road at the intersection, I would have been much quicker. | |||||
| 2. | High along the right side of the reentrant until the junction, then I crossed and climbed up to the plateau. The green was not as bad as I figured it might be. The plateau seemed so short as I crossed it and ran along the edge to the top of the reentrant. | ||||||
| 3. | Using trails, I crossed the main park road and got on the campground road. I got to a road bend which I recognized as not being mapped correctly and ran around the green to the first man-made junk pile (dangerous glass). With two larger pieces of junk oriented correctly and the reentrant visible ahead, I figured I had gotten to the right place. This was reinforced by another man turning up and stopping. Afer looking back a bit, I went ahead and found th esecond junk pile. It seemed to me to be mapped a bit further than it should have been. I jumped around the sharp glass and punched. | ||||||
| 4. | Down and up. The control coded had been changed from an earth bank to a gully but it was really a ditch or even just a reentrant. | ||||||
| 5. | Across the power lines to the road (the mapped bend seemed exagerated), then off the open area. I was hesitant going down because I was unsure if I was hitting the right reentrant. Another woman punched just in front of me. | ||||||
| 6. | +00:15 | I got a bit high but was close enough to see it, correcting to the right. | |||||
| 7. | I went fairly straight so that I'd know where I was when crossing the trail at the knoll. I read the vegetation in . | ||||||
| 8. | +00:30 | I cut right a bit to avoid vegetation but climbed angling to the spur. I followed the spur up. The contours didn't seem right to me, I cut left a bit to stay on the spur then shot across the ridge. I stopped after dropping down the right amount then looked around. Several others were in the area. Jon Torrance approached from my left. I looked right and saw the hill hiding the pit and got there just before Jon. I discovered the pit to be wet. | |||||
| 9. | I came off the road bend and remembered a control being here before. I wanted to make sure not to misse it so I went a little further to come more directly down the reentrant. | ||||||
| 10. | I angled a bit right to the road but eventually crossed it after rounding the green. I hit the next trail very near the intersection but it was so faint I was unsure of it. I cut left on it and became more confident. As I left the road, I passed Sid Sachs and spiked the control. | ||||||
| 11. | I first thought to angle across the stream but second guessed myself to get across more to the right to use the trail. I was unsure of the mapping of the trail but followed the blazes anyway. Up the next hill, I angled across the flat and spiked the spring on the other side. | ||||||
| 12. | +01:30 | I thought about going up the white reentrant but decided to angle up instead to hit the trail. It was slowish. I was unsure where I hit the trail but eventually got to the power line ride. Using the ride, then the road along it, I got a little confused and went to #4 again. I cut back to #12 after that but this big S-curve route lost me time. | |||||
| 13. | Straight at it but a little cautious going up. I'm not sure if I've ever been to this nice control for course setters. | ||||||
| 14. | +00:20 | I angled right and hit the trail at the bend. I used the roads to attack off the northern pull-out but was too far north of the control. The contours sorted it out for me. | |||||
| 15. | +00:20 | I passed Tim Good leaving the control and didn't pause much. I misread the control such that I believed I had to cross the reentrant rather than stay in it. I corrected after rereading the map. I probably drew Tim off-line. | |||||
| F. | Up the left side of the reentrant and a bit left to avoid some green. I was slow climbing. This was probably the right distance for me in my present situation. I hacked a bunch after stopping. As I cooled standing and talking, My back tightened a bit more and felt sore. |
Total Time Lost - 00:03:55