Race Evaluation
UNO Club Championships -- Beaver Brook: Red
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| 1. | +00:30 | Trail around the fields. Left trails 75m SSE of control, crossed the wide reentrant and saw the thick green below me. Was confused in the green a bit. HR 142 | |||||
| 2. | Ran trails to the bend to the NW, then ascended a couple of contours to the boulders, contoured into the wide reentrant, then up to the control. HR 146 | ||||||
| 3. | Straight. HR 140. | ||||||
| 4. | Through the buildings, crossed the swamp, left at the trail jct, jumped off after crossing the linear swamp. Ticked off major boulders as I went N, and went in by matching the reentrants. HR 150. | ||||||
| 5. | Trails, S, then W. The direct path looked to iffy. Left the path after a tiny dark green patch, ticked off the boulder on my way to the flag. Spike. HR 144. | ||||||
| 6. | +00:15 | Ran on a bearing, but was slightly to the left of the depression. HR 138. | |||||
| 7. |
Did not plan ahead Did not check features en route Underrated difficulty | Major stuffup. The plan was to go straight, a bit L of the line, using the oblong knolls to point me to the control. The problem was the visibility was poor. I may have overrun a trail or 2. After not being in contact for a while, I bailed to the trails. Even on the trail, I thought I was S of 7, running through the dark green. I hit the 3-way jct E of 6, so I turned S, took the trail to the 4-way jct, up, and jumped off where the trail took a short dip NW just outside the circle. There was another guy flailing around in the woods almost the whole time I was. HR 132 | |||||
| 8. | +00:30 | Straight. At the end, though, I didn't read the clue description, and I did a buttonhook run around and then down to the control rather than dropping off the trail early. HR 146. | |||||
| 9. | +00:15 | At the 3-way trail jct, I jumped off NW and ticked off the boulder, wide reentrant on the index line, and then the line of cliffs. Got a bit too far N. HR 137 | |||||
| 10. | W to trail, then missed the wall end as the jumpoff point. Saw the boulder, and hit the control from the SE. HR 150. | ||||||
| 11. | +02:00 | The intent was to follow the line off the trail to hit the trail at the bend, but I missed E, hitting the stone wall. I had to run W on the trail, then S from the trail past the boulder cluster, the knoll, and in. HR 149. | |||||
| 12. | Ick. I really did not want to overrun the trail, given clumsy leg #7. Carefully slogged, maybe I found the non-green patch ENE of #11, eventually found the N-S trail, and fixed my position on the "h"-shaped cliff W of #12. | ||||||
| 13. | Carefully contoured straight, ticking off the scattered boulders and knolls as I went. HR 143. | ||||||
| 14. | +01:30 | Aimed ESE to the trail, but hit it just N of due E. Doh. Trail S staying near the lake, left it at the bend before the trickle. HR 159 | |||||
| 15. | +02:00 | Misread the first trail jct until I saw another guy who had been with me 11-12-13-14 coming N on the trail from the S. We crossed the swamp. I took the acute R to stay low to the swamp and went up what must have been the wrong reentrant, since I got too high. Eventually navigated W using the stone wall as a handrail. HR 148 | |||||
| 16. | Straight on the line, skirting the marsh to the S, then around on the road. HR 165. | ||||||
| F. | HR 162. |
Total Time Lost - 00:07:00