Race Evaluation
BAOC Quicksilver O'Quest, Day 1: Blue
Tundra/Desert
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Bad route choice Did not like map +01:00 | N trail was faster because of an easier approach. | |||||
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Bad route choice Did not like map Lacked confidence +02:30 | Straight was faster because of an easier approach. You could see it from the previous spur, coming in straight. I took the trail and came down, and spent time looking for the (non-)clearing (a large tree fell over it). | |||||
| 7. | Francois, who had the best split, took the higher trail. It was about 5 contours less climb (120 m vs. 145 m) and slightly longer. I felt like I could have gone faster on my route, yielding about the same time as Francois's—the two routes were about equal. | ||||||
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Bad map reading +00:10 | Tried going down the impassable cliff. I'd get my chance later. | |||||
| 11. | The King of the Hill! I won! | ||||||
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| 13. | Not really a route-choice leg: up along the trail to a mined-out reentrant, then down. | ||||||
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Ran too fast Did not like map Bad map reading +01:30 | First, tried going down some really steep stuff; had to turn around. Then, came into the open slope with pebbles (mining-remnants gravel?), and could not see all of the rocky ground on the map—just a narrow strip. Stopped and sort of proceeded down, and found another control in the mine (an X). Relocated—about 1'15. | |||||
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Bad route choice Did not like map +03:30 | Was going to contour, but after the steepest reentrant, saw the 3rd green ahead, and a game trail, up 7 contours, to the road. Took it. Then, once on the road, had to go all the way to the spur, as there was poison oak and thorny *t along the road's fringe, and also extremely steep to go down. Everyone else who took the road had the same problem. Once on the spur, I went down quite slowly (misidentified the mining remnants by one terrace) and hit the impassable cliff. Decided to go down it; was probably an OK decision, given how long it was to go around, but I spent too much time hanging on the slope, holding onto poison oak sticks. I should have let it go right away. The best route (Vadimas) turned out to be the low road. Go figure. | |||||
| 18. | Slow because tired; an OK route along the indistinct trail. Not really a route-choice leg. | ||||||
| 19. | A huge pit on top of the hill was not mapped. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:08:40