Race Evaluation
OOC Stoney Swamp West: Long advanced (training course)
boyle
| 1. | What a start, 50m in I realised that the map had no control descriptions which I would definitely need for the control dense regions - back to the start. I stayed right along the boundary of green and open land. | ||||||
| 2. | This should have been a simple trail run but when I left trail I ended up at two controls I didn't want. Sneaky Adrian placed four controls within 200m which fooled me up but also provided catching features. | ||||||
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| 5. | +02:00 | I jumped N to trail then shot off end of trail to cliff side, assumed I was N of control, looked N carefully, sprinted south nearly to TCTrail and then had to back track all that way and more. | |||||
| 6. | Sprinted S to TCTrail then off after water. | ||||||
| 7. | This was a nice long trail run. | ||||||
| 8. | I returned to trail then ran down broken fence, short hop N to FAST cliff side run through cedars. | ||||||
| 9. | All the way back down the same cedar floor sprint then I ran bearing past the marsh full of deer and to the next line of broken fence. | ||||||
| 10. | This was a straight W run on which I hesitated too much. | ||||||
| 11. | This was a simple leg where I got distracted by guys coming off control that I thought were talking as if they were still heading for it. | ||||||
| 12. | NE to trail, N past the dried up marsh, SW round green and straight in to the green hiding control. | ||||||
| 13. | +05:00 | This leg was a repeat of the mess of leg 2 but worse. I had bearing prepared from control #12, crossed TCTrail and stopped at broken fencing. Looked left, ran right nearly to concession, ran left to green but didn't see previously visited #3 so ran all the way right again. Now I had no choice, all the way left down fence to #3, back track from there. I dropped a place in the results standings. | |||||
| 14. | I joined others and should have been running straight down broken fence line but drifted N in to yet another control in Adrian's crowd of controls. | ||||||
| 15. | This should have been a straightforward trail run but I somehow missed the jump across the quarry ponds and drifted N in to that GREEN I manage to snag every time I run this map. With so much practise in that GREEN I'm getting better at getting out of it. Back on the trails, I jumped up on to cliff top at just the right place. | ||||||
| 16. | This was a straight compass run. | ||||||
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| 19. | I had a terrible time relocating within pit area. This area would prove even greater trouble as the starting point for my long intermediate course. | ||||||
| F. | I ran S no matter what was in the way but in the parking lot I couldn't see the finish control and nobody would answer my pleas for location. |
Total Time Lost - 00:07:00