Race Evaluation
QOC Pohick Bay: Blue
richf
| 1. | Just taking it slow trying to be one with the map | ||||||
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| 4. | Overshoot. Turn around and come back | ||||||
| 5. | Chagrined by the last leg I slow way down. | ||||||
| 6. | A lot of needless back and forthing on the hilside. | ||||||
| 7. | Running the "trail" along the swamp edge the whole way to the end of the spur. Not short but it easy to tell where one is. | ||||||
| 8. | Feeling better about finding a few controls I speed up. Feeling good, fresh and going faster... | ||||||
| 9. | ... and on the way to 9 while looking at the map thinking about 10 my left leg is swallowed by some leaf covered varmint hole. My leg is literally in this hole to mid thigh and I think my chest actually struck the ground. Worry for a second that something might be down there but remember that it was leaf covered. Knee feels a little loose but no harm other than scaring the ---- out of me and providing a huge adrenalin rush. Slow back down to watch where I am going. | ||||||
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| 11. | Following the trail feeling better. | ||||||
| 12. | Includes water time at 11. I don't like to drink and run at the same time. | ||||||
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| 14. | Too much time near the control running around uselessly. | ||||||
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| 16. | Retrospectively I like to think of this as my value leg. I paid for the whole course so I might as well use the whole course right? Looking at the map now I am pretty sure I know where I was and I make my distance covered here at roughly a mile. It weren't no easy mile either. I paid for the climb so I'll go up and down a few time for the fun of it if I want to. What I was thinking at the time is a total mystery. Viewed on the map it make almost a perfect Z shape. Not particularly efficient. See someone else coming into the control behind me. | ||||||
| 17. | I am so pissed about the last leg I pick it up for this one. According to the club website this was a common red/blue leg for which I post the fast split of the day. A small victory! Whoever was behind me (ted good maybe from the split?) gets the benefit of my only decent navigation in a while, perhaps of the whole day, but cruises by me while I stop to appreciate another water break. | ||||||
| 18. | Running on the road it's not hard to keep up with whoever passed me but I don't really see any point in overtaking. | ||||||
| 19. | Not passing on the road provides the opportunity to see how someone else approaches a leg. Okay I should have to pay the guy in front of me for this lesson in not wasting energy pursuing needless elevation. I was prepared to do a lot more up and down but the superioirity of his strategy (aorund not over) is evident. If you read this I'll buy you a beverage anyway. | ||||||
| 20. | Having followed for the last leg I drop back a bit to navigate on my own again. | ||||||
| F. | Cruising in trying to stay out of the swamp. |
Total Time Lost - 00:00:00