Race Evaluation
West Point: Blue 2
graeme
| 1. | Right of pond | ||||||
| 2. | straight | ||||||
| 3. | +01:30 | dropped back to main path - way too much climb back up. | |||||
| 4. | spike. See Benetis (who I didn't know) enter stage left as I leave. | ||||||
| 5. | Passed by Benetis, but I lucked onto small trail and left him floundering in boulders and crap. | ||||||
| 6. | Low. Benetis caught me on track climb. Stayed on trail to last possible minute (good). Then straight up with Benetis on my tail. | ||||||
| 7. | Benetis shot off. Since all I'd seen was him missing at 4&5 and following me at 6, I mistakenly assumed he was someone fast with flaky navigation. I didn't see much point in trying to keep up. Not that I could have, as it turns out. | ||||||
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| 9. | +01:00 | Straight - up and down, through the green. Pretty dumb move. | |||||
| 10. | Well left of swamp | ||||||
| 11. | +03:30 | Leaving control, spotted concertina wire with a millisecond notice. Jumped more by reflex than intnt, and was mighty relieved to clear it - had there been a second roll, I'd still be there. (Neil Dobbs reported being stuck for 4mins until helped out). Over the top - ridges were nice yesterday and again today, but lost concentration in the circle (climbed too hard?) | |||||
| 12. | +02:30 | Lost touch in green, and took a fair bit to relocate - had to go up the hill | |||||
| 13. | Along huge cliff foot | ||||||
| 14. | Tentative descending, then distracted by FK (indeed) control on what looked mighty like a boulder. | ||||||
| 15. | fairly straight. to small diagonal track. | ||||||
| F. | I ran blue here about 10 years ago in a similar time. It was 4km shorter, had more climb and was rather unpleasant. This was a much better planned course, and if I was exhausted by the end that's the right of M40's who dont admit their age. |
Total Time Lost - 00:08:30