Race Evaluation
Hickory Run: Red Middle
jjcote
| 1. | Along the trail for a good long way, headed into the woods at a different spot than I intended, flailed around randomly, but in the right direction, until I stumbled into the control. This set the tone for the rest of the day. | ||||||
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| 3. | Too far right, actually found #4 first, but even with that solid attack point, I still went some dumb places first. | ||||||
| 4. | You'd think I'd be able to find this trivially at this point... | ||||||
| 5. | Too low, not sure where I was crossing the trail, kinda figured I might be low, and once I spotted the ponds I was okay. | ||||||
| 6. | Distracted by a control in a reentrant halfway there. | ||||||
| 7. | A very good leg to be very careful, but I wasn't. Too far right, went though the (green) marshes between the trails, and when I reached the second trail, I was by a little marsh, which I hoped was the one with the trail on the far side. That would have been nice. But I was at the next one to the west, which I hadn't seen on the map. When I didn't find a trail, I should have backed out, but instead I bashed through the laurel and finally came out in some white, but didn't know what white. I guess I had a vague idea that I was probably too far west, because I did head in the right direction and stumbled into the control just as PG and Ethan caught up (10 and 8 minutes, I believe). | ||||||
| 8. | The three of us took different routes, I was the furthest to the right, not that that was really what I had planned. Saw the other two coming downhill out of the control when I got near the stream. | ||||||
| 9. | Lucked into a good route out via the open marsh and got ahead of PG (for good). Saw Ethan up ahead at the control. | ||||||
| 10. | Too far right -- again. Saw the ponds and waved hello to control #5 on the way by, then straight in from there, caught up with Ethan who had been too far left. | ||||||
| 11. | Couldn't read the details on the map, so just followed Ethan. | ||||||
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| 13. | Too far right, followed the edge of the steep slope up. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:00:00