Race Evaluation
Mt. Penn - Pagoda: blue
Tundra/Desert
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Confused parallel features Not thinking clearly +02:00 | Saw the bag on the boulder and was sure it was yesterday's #6. It looked so the same. Went downhill (since I thought I was near yesterday's #6), saw the paved road and the houses, came back. | |||||
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Did not follow plan Confused parallel features +01:30 | Thought I'd simplify pretty radically and started off towards #5; thought about using the paved road after that. But as I went past #6, I hesitated and turned right, thinking I'd use trails to get to the paved road. Confused the very first trail with a segment of the N-S, more prominent trail, went S. The trail turned SW. Something was wrong. I went off the trail, directly S, and got stuck in the dark green. Went SE, towards the open woods and the power lone. Found myself at a trail junction just past the power line. It was easy after that. | |||||
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Bad compass work Confused parallel features +00:50 | Off to the right. Some searching. | |||||
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Did not like map +01:00 | Went past it, one "contour line" higher on the slope. | |||||
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Bad route choice Hesitated +00:50 | Up the power line, considering and re-considering the Z-y trail on the W side of the purple line. Ended up stuck in some bush while paralleling the power line W of it. The Z-y trail would have provided a wonderful approach; the aproach from the power line sucked. | |||||
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| 7. | With Peter G between #7–#9. He's darn amazing for someone 57 yrs old, just floating effortlessly through the rock. | ||||||
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Bad route choice Took a chance +00:30 | Should have used the levee but instead just ran straight to it, slowed by the rocky ground; also, missed it long and to the right. | |||||
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Lacked confidence +00:10 | This time, stayed on the levee/streamer tape line too long. Off left. | |||||
| 10. | To List Rd., straight in from where the power line left it. | ||||||
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| 13. | Got motivated by the uphill and nuked it. Came in wide around the model airplane field (that _was_ the plan but I was just jogging on Skyline Dr. after the King of the Hill part). | ||||||
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Lacked confidence +00:10 | Got distracted by the control on the shallow reentrant. | |||||
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Bad map reading +01:10 | Wide around on Skyline, staying level. Came to the control 1.5 contours too high and searched all the ditches up and down. | |||||
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Bad map reading +00:20 | Confused some trails on the way. | |||||
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Bad map reading +00:20 | Confused trails, again. Left the trails too early and went into the yellow open quarry. Stanislav was laughing at me. | |||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:08:50