Race Evaluation
5. Nationaler A OL: HE
Tundra/Desert
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| 2. | Hesitated right before the control. This pushes the definition of a spike, but for my speed, this was not a loss. I.e. these 15 seconds would have meant a lot more, proportionally, to Andy Müller. | ||||||
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| 6. | People (including Boris) climbed a lot of that spur right out of #5. I didn't, but stood and contemplated it for a while. Coming into #6, I lost track of the large spurs and regained contact just in time to see the bag above me. | ||||||
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Bad map reading Bad compass work +02:30 | Two booms. First one, led off by the slope. Near the control, I did not pay attention to the map and followed someone instead to a different knoll control (at which I took a split). | |||||
| 8. | Started off in the wrong direction but I don't think this cost much. Could not pass a girl on the way from the trail to the control. | ||||||
| 9. | The girl was still ahead. She had a different control instead of #9, though. | ||||||
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| 12. | Eric passed me just as I reached the trail S of #11 and walked while checking its direction. I had Eric in sight until after #12. | ||||||
| 13. | I thought this would be hard but it wasn't. A large elephant trail. | ||||||
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| 15. | Took trails—who am I kidding? | ||||||
| 16. | +00:55 | Got pulled to the right just before the control because I wasn't reading the map on the monster downhill, and saw a control there on the right. Some people followed me. I recovered in no time. | |||||
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Underrated difficulty Bad distance judgement Not thinking clearly +13:10 | I trhought I had enough technical prowess to nail this while going straight. I actually read most of the boulders on the slope and was headed right to it when I stopped, alerted by a trail going downhill along what looked like a dry intermittent stream (the stream at #12 was completely dry). I thought this was the trail just after #12, and that I had stayed too high. Surely, there was a boulder lightly back and way down. I ran there, no control. After this I did not have a plan. I just sort of searched the area trying not to fall asleep. Finding #96 (by the intermittent trail at the N-most point of my butterfly) provided some brief excitement which quickly gave way to more boredom. Eventually I figured everything out by repositioning myself to exactly the place at which things went awry, and spotting the large boulder ahead. | |||||
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Did not check features en route Bad compass work +03:35 | Quite pissed, I headed downhill. Got pulled to the right. As soon as I reached the correct elevation, I started to look for the U (or for people punching). I saw a bag to my right. Not my bag. | |||||
| 19. | I actually had no recollection of this one leg a few weeks later when I sat down to draw the routes, which means I probably followed someone. | ||||||
| 20. | The rest of the course was uneventful. | ||||||
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| 23. | Just as I lef #22, there were Boris and Greg Barbour. They went low. I got to #23 before them... | ||||||
| 24. | ...but let them go. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:20:10