Race Evaluation
Prince William: Blue
Nadim
| 1. | +02:00 | I ran pretty wildly not using trails and ended-up a little too far left. I turned around just a little bit into the out-of-bounds area upon seeing the road. | |||||
| 2. | Down the spur, with the grain of the reentrants on the other side of the stream, the adjust on compass from the top of the reentrants to the clearing. | ||||||
| 3. | W to the trail, R, then left from the reentrant down to the control. | ||||||
| 4. | I crossed the creek immediately then had to go up the hill on the trail before it went back down. I cut left toward the marsh, climbed the reentrant then turned left on Pyrite Mine Rd. I cut right to contour to the top of the reentrant and down. Heidi Onkst was coming up from below in the other direction. Her route might have been better. | ||||||
| 5. | I took a while deciding whether to go from above or below. Ultimately I went down and passed the pyrite mines. The new trail threw me but I kept running. I came up the reentrant. | ||||||
| 6. | +02:00 | I intended to hit the Pyrite Mine Rd. but after climbing to top of the reentrant I didn't cut left enough. I saw a line of blow down and reasoned that there it was new. The map seemed too lightly green. Going on the edge of the green, I finally cut left hard to suck it up through the green. By then I was at the farthest point from the trail and should have kept going straight. After hitting the Pyrite Mine Rd. and turning right, I turned right on the park loop road and followed it all the way to the bend due east of the control. I followed along a reentrant down to the stream and noted the saddle on my right. This didn't match-up with the map which showed the saddle being directly on my route to the control. I cut right a bit but seeing the reentrant complex on my left I cut back left and found the control in the middle one. | |||||
| 7. | Down the ridge and along the stream to the control. I caught some younger ROTC's there and forgot to take a split after punching and drinking. | ||||||
| 8. | +00:30 | Down the stream then right on the road. I reasoned the road was fast climbing and that there might be too many logs to cross that would wear me down. I started feeling faster on the ridge trail. Nearing the bend and reentrant I slowed cut left then came back to the trail reasoning it was too soon. A few steps more and I saw Tim Gilbert coming out of a reentrant. Second guessing myself I cut hard left down to the reentrant and realized correctly I was one N of the control. | |||||
| 9. | I left Tim G. and hit the ridge trail. I cut right just before the S. Fork Quantico Creek and figured running across the creek was faster but not significantly; I crossed on the road. Up the hill I cut right staying on the road nearly until the triangle. Originally I had planned to cut right then go to the next triangle intersection, cut left and over the ridge to the control. I skipped the last part to avoid the extra climb. Where I did cut in, it was only a few quick steps and I was through the green. I ran up the left side of the reentrant with the ridge on my right. I should have read the feature code on the way. I paused before climbing over the dirt bank to the dot knoll. | ||||||
| 10. | Over to the reentrant and down it on the right side, I cut right just before the confluence and climbed up at the saddle to the road. I cut left around the 1.5 contour knoll on the other side and felt awfully close to the cabin on my left. I ran down the reentrant from there and saw Victor leaving. | ||||||
| 11. | I reasoned that with two hills in the way, going around on the trail would be faster for me. Victor and a women's team went that way too. I caught them at the second bend and kept running into the woods staying in the white area. Victor pursued closely at first but cut more right when I cut left in an unmapped clear area. I hit the trail just below the trail intersection. From the intersection I cut up the woods and was able to run okay thinking Victor might be just behind--he wasn't. I hit the field at the corner and saw it from there. | ||||||
| F. | I ran okay and felt yesterday in my hamstrings. |
Total Time Lost - 00:04:30