Race Evaluation
WCOC Tarrywile: Red
stever
| 1. | My first attempt to use attack point. Cool. Maybe someday I'll even learn to take splits. Drop dead gorgeous weather. Wow. | ||||||
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Bad map reading +00:45 | Straight to distinct spur that defines the control location ... only to drop into the far/right reentrant instead of the near/left one. Sloppy. Was going by map memory instead of double checking the map when I reached the circle. | |||||
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| 6. | Leaving 5, tried to angle a bit left on way down to the trail but the green pushed me back. So with that fight fresh in mind, I took the trails all the way around until the reentrant formed on the right. Then used reentrant to lead me in. Slow but safe. | ||||||
| 7. | Left the trail just after it crosses the stream, and headed between the cliffs to the wide spur. UP, up, up. Gosh I'm in lousy shape. | ||||||
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Did not read control description +00:45 | Enjoyed this leg. In contact the whole way, all the way to the knoll. Strange, no flag on knoll. Check control description .. cliff .. bottom ... doh! Rookie mistake. | |||||
| 9. | Chose route right of line, to pickup re-entrant that feeds into trail near the "wiggle". In contact the whole way, but then again that's not too difficult when you're slowing walking ... | ||||||
| 10. | Took the safe trail route to left, which favours good fit runners -- which I'm not. Straight probably would have been a better choice for me. Oh well. | ||||||
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No attack point Took a chance Underrated difficulty Bad distance judgement Lacked concentration +05:00 | Boom. How embarrassing. Missed seeing the correct boulder somehow, and kept heading down the spur to check out a series of 3 or 4 likely looking boulders (all unmapped). Went a good 4-5 contours down before crawling back up. | |||||
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Did not like map +01:00 | With good confidence and in contact ran down the correct spur and to the correct point ... but no flag. Took a while to realize that "my point" was an unmapped rock feature and the flag was 20m farther on. I see George was also fooled by this. Given this map error, not really a suitable control location. | |||||
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Did not follow plan Did not like map Lacked confidence +03:00 | Boom. I was following a careful bearing, just like I should, but my bearing was leading me though some bad green. Since the map showed the green as being lower than the line, I lost confidence in my bearing and "corrected" to the right. Sure enough I missed the cliff and instead hit the "double cliff" feature farther and up to the right. But I struggled to convince myself that the double cliff was indeed the mapped feature, and I was very slow to recover. I feel quite dumb about this mistake because I know better than to give more weight to veg than to contours. | |||||
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| 19. | Amused myself by forging a "short cut" through the green between the trails near the lake (so I could avoid the little 3 contour climb back up the hillside). Probably didn't save any time, but it was fun. | ||||||
| F. | Did I mention the weather was gorgeous? WCOC also had a great little picnic afterwards. Great day, and worth the drive. |
Total Time Lost - 00:10:30