Race Evaluation
WCOC Macedonia: Red
JanetT
| 1. | +00:45 | Down road. Tried to cross stream at one point but couldn't do it without getting feet wet (too early for that!) so went back on road to bridge. Arrived at bag same time as Tom Little (who started a minute behind). | |||||
| 2. | Contour to trail and up to flat, then down to bag. Tom got there first. | ||||||
| 3. | Compass to bag. Tom right behind. | ||||||
| 4. | East to stream and look for bag. Tom right behind again. | ||||||
| 5. | NE to stone wall and up. Tom punched shortly behind me, but then I never saw him again. I wonder if he swung down to the stream to get to 6 (which would have involved going off the map). | ||||||
| 6. | Thanks for the trail through the barberry! Took it to the barb wire fence(!) and found a way through, then along walls to the stream. Cute little stream bend! | ||||||
| 7. | Along west side of large stream to stream junction, then across, where I intended to follow it up to where the hill got steeper. The barberry pushed me farther east, but I still kept the hill and stone wall in mind. Right past a number of rock piles to the next set of piles, through the gap in the next wall, and up to the flag. | ||||||
| 8. | +00:30 | Woods for a ways, then out to the road to the trail in. Expected to see flag from junction; all I saw was a person sitting down on a wall. Poked around here and there until I checked where she was sitting--by the flag/water! | |||||
| 9. | +00:45 | Back to trail, cut off it at the right place, saw boulder near circle but no flag. Kristin, John G. and another fellow were headed farther west so I kept with them and found a flag on a parallel pile; couldn't decide whether I'd marked the wrong one or Peter did. | |||||
| 10. | Remembered to take into account which pile I was moving from; slow into control because it was a little farther than I expected. | ||||||
| 11. | FR shows I looped west then south to avoid most of the barberry (found a way through) in the marsh. | ||||||
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| 13. | Didn't puzzle over the wrong code for long. It was in the right place! | ||||||
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| 16. | +05:10 | Contoured around hill and then wasn't sure what elevation I was on but saw pond. I thought I was at the high point on the spur on S side of big hill, but must have been over shoulder and didn't see bag. Chased on at trail junction and took roundabout route to correct once I figured out where to go! | |||||
| 17. | +00:25 | Steep downhill on trail; tough on sore knees, and I almost stumbled once (back tightened up to catch me; stiff today). Hesitated at flag at trail/stone wall jct but wrong code. | |||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:07:35