GregBalter's comments - by leg
| 1. |
Did not plan ahead Hesitated Time Lost: 00:30 | did not warm up properly, started slow, without choosing my rout to 1, it took me good 2.5 min into the course to make up my mind and I went left on the road, to the turn, over the hill and in, was hesitant on final approach |
| 2. |
Bad compass work Confused parallel features Time Lost: 01:00 | went north,ended up on the wrong side of the pond, realised a liitle too late, looked in parallel situation, realized my error quick, got to control from oppsite side |
| 3. |
Confused parallel features Time Lost: 01:00 | nice slalom run between hills,but misread parrallel fiatures at the control |
| 4. |
Hesitated Time Lost: 00:15 | straight a bit hesitant |
| 5. |
Did not follow plan Did not check features en route Underrated difficulty Ran too fast Bad map reading Time Lost: 01:50 | got totally lost after I went around marsh, lost my confidence for about next 4 (500m) min, hesitated at the control too |
| 6. |
Did not like map Time Lost: 00:10 | on the trail to the turn, hesitated, but, read the contours and got this control with minor loss |
| 7. | around , below the cliffs, to the stream and up, greener then I expected from the map. | |
| 8. | Time Lost: 00:10 | reentrant, under two cliffs, above two cliffs, around the green, flat slop on compass b., ended just below the control, saw terrain ahead to become steeper, got the control from below |
| 9. |
Bad map reading Hesitated Time Lost: 00:15 | another uphill slalom run, a little hesitant at the and |
| 10. |
Confused parallel features Lacked confidence Time Lost: 02:00 | the plan was to get the trail for 500 m, finding trail head took me good 2 min, saw Steve Flugal 3 times on same trail, untill he pointed me to a trail head. nailed the control after that. |
| 11. |
Confused parallel features Time Lost: 02:15 | made wrong pick coming up the control, went left for parrallel features, realized too late |
| 12. |
Did not read control code Time Lost: 01:30 | got to the control - no problems, had wrong code in my punch card, paniced, for ~ 1.5 min runing around - stupid |
| 13. |
Total Time Lost - 00:10:55
| Suggested Exercises | |
|---|---|
| map reading | |
| compass work | |
| distance estimation | |
| route planning | |
| map memory | |
| map contact | |
| control flow | |
| concentration | |