Race Evaluation
FUMA @ Fork Union, Virgina: Blue
vmeyer
| 1. | I am feeling a bit wheezy since last night and probably should have passed on this event - but cabin fever won out. Up to the tennis courts, through faculty housing, to the road. To the big road and the control. | ||||||
| 2. | Trail to clearing and then across stream - the first of many times today. Up sloppy trail to control. | ||||||
| 3. | When I got back, Mike B said that Francis H said that I messed up on #3. I did and I was ticked off because I still couldn't figure out why. When I got home, I looked at the clue sheet again and the light went on!! I had fixed in my mind that I was looking for a pit, not a gully. So, I resisted going downhill. A pit would be on level ground. It never even hit me that the map didn't add up to what I had in my mind. I went back and forth and finally down to the stream. I was heading back up to start again when I spotted the control. Still not in a ditch. Francis was coming from this area. | ||||||
| 4. | This was a gully also, but just being burned, I shamelessly followed Francis' tracks to the control. I didn't even notice that pit vs gully issue. | ||||||
| 5. | Follow the tracks halfway to the control then I am on my own. | ||||||
| 6. | Distance is short but I am pooped already. | ||||||
| 7. | 6-7 crossed over 4-5. Rip my shirt on an unmarked barbed wire fence. | ||||||
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| 9. | To the road, around the fenced yard, under the pipe, trail. | ||||||
| 10. | Take the stream to the field. Field to trail, but not as early as I had hoped. Just as well because trail is sloppy wet. Follow fence through field - fence never ends. Pick up Francis's trail and follow it to control. | ||||||
| 11. | Straight to control. | ||||||
| 12. | Up to stream and trail to small clearing. Trail west to big clearing. | ||||||
| 13. | Hit trail at the fork, down trail, and in to control. | ||||||
| 14. | Exhausted. Trail to field and then angle over to pond to control. | ||||||
| F. | Hike up the sloppy trail and across the wind blown lot to the finish. Decided to carry water and my digital camera. I never did see the water at Controls 1 & 8 - behind the tree and across the bank. I was grateful for the 20 oz I had with me. I wasted time trying to get the self-timer to work. Hey, all those pictures of just the control got boring. |
Total Time Lost - 00:00:00