Race Evaluation
Pond Mountain WCOC Meet: Red
jjcote
| 1. | Took the road, and cut in where a stone wall went in perpendicular to the road, across from a field, but looking at it now, I thin the field is bigger than shown, and I took the wrong wall. Thrashed through barberry for a while, and wound up a far way north of the control. | ||||||
| 2. | Thought at first that I was looking for a boulder cluster, but upon seeing none, looked again and found that the triangle was brown. | ||||||
| 3. | Contoured along, somewhat carefully, checking things off. But the big cliff just beyond teh control was a solid enough feature that I could been more reckless. | ||||||
| 4. | Stayed pretty close to the line, though I did use the trail for a little bit. | ||||||
| 5. | Got most of the way there just fine, but misread things close to the control, and overshot a litttle. Then I wound up looking in the steep rocky reentrant 70 m SE of the control, which didn't look right at all. Straightened my head out and went back to where I belonged. | ||||||
| 6. | Planned to contour around teh reentrant, not paying enough attention to realize that contouring woudl basically take me back to #4. When the slope didn't swing left, I turned left and dropped down, but over did it a little and hat to climb back up a few lines. | ||||||
| 7. | Straight, but lost a couple of seconds when I thought I was looking for a spur instead of boulder field, and didn't immediately look behind the rocks for the flag. | ||||||
| 8. | Nice downhill leg, executed pretty well. | ||||||
| 9. | Down left to a trail, followed it a very short distance, then contoured to the next trail. Misread things at the junction, and took a hard right instead of going straight, but that very quickly looked wrong, so I turned, handrailed off a stone wall, and then crossed the real trail and went directly to the control. | ||||||
| 10. | No prob. Left only a small amount of water in the jug, and Nancy (coming a bit later) settled for only that mouthful rather than opening another bottle. | ||||||
| 11. | Pretty much straight. | ||||||
| 12. | Hot and tired, and totally lost contact. I was moseying along in the right general direction, but really didn't know where I was, so I took a pretty wandering path. Finally recognized some features and went to the control. | ||||||
| 13. | Saw this one from quite a distance. | ||||||
| 14. | Trail for the first half, stone wall for the second half. | ||||||
| 15. | Could have done a *much* better job on this if I had been paying attention, particularly in terms of planning a route that didn't involve going through two of the bits of thick forest separating the fields. | ||||||
| F. | Nice course, and we got some reasonably spectacular weather driving back through Hartford. |
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