Race Evaluation
NEOC - Wadsworth Falls: Green
cmorse
| 1. | +03:30 | Did not include copy time of 2:51. Left start so focused on how to deal with lack of black features, I did not notice I forgot to turn my scale around. Pace counting at 1:10000 I ran past control and ended up on edge of map at distinct stream. Worked my way back to control tentatively | |||||
| 2. | More cautious pace counting with the correct scale now. Spike | ||||||
| 3. | +00:40 | Found a trail partway that was going my direction - took it for a while, then ran up spur. Saw distinct earth bank before control but did not see the knoll, wound up just beyond on larger hill - turned around and saw flag - knoll pretty vague | |||||
| 4. | Run hard on rough bearing until intersecting with intermittent stream bed, then follow until slope steepened, then contour over to broad spur - tentative into the control circle but spiked it | ||||||
| 5. | +00:15 | steep hill before control slowed me down, but hit the reentrant about 20m N of flag | |||||
| 6. | longer leg on bearing / contouring - got into the green in front of control but spiked it cleanly after getting through the briers | ||||||
| 7. | +03:00 | drifted north by following a trail that 'seemed' to go my way but actually led me astray. Yellow to the S appears to have gotten larger in 12 years - wound up on stream at steep embankment - slow picking my way south to flag - bad route execution and hesitation | |||||
| 8. | +00:30 | pretty much straight to hill, but ended up just north and contoured around slightly | |||||
| 9. | +02:00 | wanted to go left and avoid green, but felt a bearing / pace count through the green was safter. Hit large depression just NW and corrected to the control - about a minute lost to deviation, rest to slow going in green | |||||
| 10. | +00:30 | pushed downhill hard, slowing up at the steeper slope hoping to hit the stream / marsh junction at the bottom and turn right - hit that cleanly but hesitated to double check position, then cleanly over to knoll | |||||
| 11. | +00:45 | control was higher in reentrant than I had circled, description should have indicated upper part. Could have saved some fighting in the trash by going higher first | |||||
| F. | Too many trails (not on map) to worry about - saw parking lot to my left across marsh, just blasted across the corner of marsh, through stream and up embankment to finish - startling a bunch of boy scouts enjoying their lunch. |
Total Time Lost - 00:11:10