Race Evaluation
US Night-O Champs: Red
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| 1. | Went out slow because I didn't trust myself. Found the first control ok. | ||||||
| 2. | Ran N to road then attacked from junction. Plan was to head for the wall to the SE of the control then move off the wall and go N. Somehow strayed N and found wall to N of junction. E from there to wall, back a little, N to trail, S to control. | ||||||
| 3. | E to rocky area, wandered only a little. Hey! same time as j.j. to here. | ||||||
| 4. | Blasted S. found boulder pair at trail/wall. Easy from there. | ||||||
| 5. | Navigated to boulder cluster, then found big boulder SE of control. Don't know why it took so much longer to find the right one. | ||||||
| 6. | In hindsight, my route choice really sucked. Ran trail S, NW, cut across, etc. Big waste of time. | ||||||
| 7. | Pace counting can be useful! Took the trail + counted. Ducked in a little early and then paralleled the trail. | ||||||
| 8. | Not being able to see the contours on the map really forced me to rely on pace-counting. I left the trail after 100 paces then went SE. Followed rocks. | ||||||
| 9. | Straight shot. | ||||||
| 10. | Another REALLY poor route choice. Went NW through everything. Got confused where I was when I emerged. | ||||||
| 11. | Went S. to trail then ran for what seemed too long before I found the road. N to wall corner, find the trail, run to wall crossing and in. | ||||||
| 12. | Went N through muck. Overshot to trail, then back. | ||||||
| 13. | Followed trail W of control, turned in more N than I thought. Wandered a bit, then looked S and saw high lights. Worked it out, picked up a couple of other orienteers for the trip to 14. | ||||||
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| 15. | Two of us went N, another W. Who got there first? (I certainly didn't. Punched in just ahead of Jim Arsenault, who finally had caught up with me -- he started 24 minutes after me.) | ||||||
| F. | Didn't look at the map which was a slight mistake. Ran W from the control. Then saw the lights. Very fast to beat Jim. |
Total Time Lost - 00:00:00