Race Evaluation

Moscow Meridian 14: 1

1.		The route should be here soon.
2.		I went around the hillside that was directly S of Control 14 and the whole hillside was a muddy swamp. It was slow. There was an unmapped cave on the narrow spur. It looked like there could be cool things inside.
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6.		Some kid, apparently on Course 2, was ahead of me to Control 3 and followed on 3–4–5–6.
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8.	Lacked confidence +00:35	The control was behind a tree directly from the obvious approach direction. I couldn't see it and walked around the spur for a bit.
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12.	Bad route choice +01:10	I went straight (having missed Sunday's exercise at Quicksilver and regretting it badly) and the climb was slow. I timed the climb itself and it was about 1:10. It saved a bit of the distance, maybe 30–35 seconds' worth, but I was not particularly confident after having climbed and this accounts for the other 35 or so seconds of the loss.
13.		Knowing what I had learned on the 1–2 leg, I went around all the way on major trails.
14.		Straight.
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Total Time Lost - 00:01:45