Race Evaluation
SN Trophy & SE League: Brown
AngusL
| 1. | +00:30 | Took it steady as I got into the map. Should have stayed high to the north, but found it easily enough, slightly lower than I'd expected. | |||||
| 2. | +01:30 | Not great: should have taken the path through but instead took a long route on the major tracks. Good final navigation though. | |||||
| 3. | Hesitated at the top of the descent. Quick out into the open. | ||||||
| 4. | Quick, and pleased with this one, heading through the woods and up past the control. | ||||||
| 5. | +06:00 | Spent six minutes looking for it in the trees, and must have passed within 5m of it twice. When I finally found it, it seemed like there was a well-worn track that I'd missed before. Gutted. | |||||
| 6. | Quickly on to this one. | ||||||
| 7. | +00:30 | Too many unmarked tracks held me up here, and so I stopped 10m short still scarred by the issue I'd had at #7. | |||||
| 8. | OK. Could have made better use of the unmarked tracks. | ||||||
| 9. | Found easily enough. Feeling pressure from running with people forces me to make obscure route choices. | ||||||
| 10. | Almost right on it, had to bend slightly left from my bearing but quick anyway. Pleased. | ||||||
| 11. | +02:30 | Very disappointed. Stopped at the gulley before the ditch, and couldn't see through the high bracked. Ended up dropping down to re-locate. | |||||
| 12. | +01:15 | Good approach, but over-shot in my enthusiasm. Strangely didn't seem to knock my confidence. | |||||
| 13. | Nailed this one, using the beautiful contours. | ||||||
| 14. | Down to the track, along and in. Nailed again. | ||||||
| 15. | And another off the contours. | ||||||
| 16. | And another! I'm flying… | ||||||
| 17. | +00:15 | … so fast that I almost overshoot this control. | |||||
| 18. | Could have taken a more direct route, but came round the paths to the south as I was familiar with them. For some reason looked for the tree, not the ditch. | ||||||
| 19. | No issues. | ||||||
| 20. | Had a good plan and executed it OK. Could have finished up more cleanly. | ||||||
| 21. | +00:45 | Slow start to this - I think I was tiring - but once I got onto familiar territory from #9, I was quick. | |||||
| 22. | Very pleased with this, catching the temptation to drift right twice before I did it. | ||||||
| 23. | +00:15 | And then I almost ran off the map. Oxygen debt from #22? Off by 90°. Muppet. Good final bearing from the lone pine to the knoll. | |||||
| 24. | And another, direct to the control. | ||||||
| 25. | This seemed to go very quickly, helped by spotting the control site from about 200m away. | ||||||
| 26. | Can't really remember the detail here, bu found it OK. | ||||||
| 27. | Down the track, and ran parallel to the road to hit the ditch, but even then was almost too far north. | ||||||
| 28. | Track-led. | ||||||
| 29. | Was looking at the wrong control description. | ||||||
| 30. | Very nearly headed off up the wrong track. The pressure of having someone on me again. Once corrected, I was fine on the approach. | ||||||
| F. | And strong into the finish. |
Total Time Lost - 00:13:30