Race Evaluation
Georgia Navigator Cup: Red Day 2
donkst
| 1. | To bend in road then straight down. No problems, a clean leg. | ||||||
| 2. |
Bad compass work +00:40 | On a bearing--ended up to far west, directly across the stream from the SE most house and had to run back up to gully. | |||||
| 3. | Straight at it, then contoured around. No problems, a clean leg. | ||||||
| 4. |
Did not follow plan Disturbed by others +04:00 | Took the trail by the pool to the first trail intersection and then ran up to the top of the ridge. Was making really good time until I stopped thinking and liked the looks of Green's double root stock control about 200 meters SSE of the control. Got down in the rentrant and followed it North and floundered around for several minutes until I started to think logically again. | |||||
| 5. |
Did not plan ahead Underrated difficulty Did not like map Frustrated +08:00 | Made good time contouring to the North of the hill between the two stream branches, but then didn't readjust further SE to find the control like I should have. Floundered for several minutes running NW and East trying to match the contours. Finally headed South when I didn't know what else to do and got lucky. I don't know about everyone else, but the map looked particularly funky in this area. It almost seemed like the control was actually in a reentrant that went in the opposite direction of the way it was marked on the map. Of course, I was probably just hallucinating at this point. | |||||
| 6. | N to the stream and up it, a clean leg. | ||||||
| 7. | Straight at it, no problems, but getting very tired, especially with all the time and energy I wasted on numbers 4 and 5. | ||||||
| 8. |
Bad route choice Confused parallel features Could not relocate Tired Not thinking clearly Lacked concentration Frustrated +25:00 | It was all over here. I thought about contouring around, but didn't feel confident enough to do that, so I decided to hump it up the hills (or should I say mountains), but by the time I reached the trail at the top of Indian Mountain, I was so tired that I said to myself, "Hmm, what's this new trail doing here?" (I thought I was already on top of the second mountain, you see) So, I thought all I have to do is cut down from the trail and hit the reentrant. Well, to make a long story short, I ended up wandering around several of the reentrants SW of Indian Mountain for a LOOONNNGGGG TIME, convincing myself I knew where I was every minute or so. My gut told me to just head South hit the road and relocated from the parking lot to the SE of the control, but no, I didn't follow that instinct, and after drifting all the way West to the main road that we crossed to get to the start, I finally discovered where I was. From there, it just turned into a relocation exercise from the parking lot. A totally discouraging leg. | |||||
| 9. |
Bad route choice Bad map reading Tired Frustrated +02:00 | At this point, I honestly was so discouraged, I just really didn't care anymore and I ran to the road intersection at King's Gap, humped it up the hill and then ran the reentrant South of the out-of-bounds house to the control. Should have at least stayed on the South side of the reentrant where the trail was, but I struggled through trying to run the steep hillside on the North side--really pretty dumb. | |||||
| 10. | Just straight down to the trail, no problems except being totally discouraged. | ||||||
| F. |
Tired | Dead tired. |
Total Time Lost - 00:39:40