Race Evaluation
DVOA Brandywyne: Red
Nadim
| 1. | I took a long time to figure out where #1 was on the map. I took trails around to the spur. I was unsure which rock it be on and had to cut back slightly. | ||||||
| 2. |
Underrated difficulty | I climbed back up to the trail I got there on. As it cut SE, I went halfway to the bend then cut SW across the reentrant. The rocks weren't that bad and there were some thorns to deal with. Cutting right on the trail after crossing the reentrant, I could see the control from the trail. | |||||
| 3. | +00:10 | I climbed up to the road and read the curve after lining up my map and reading the woods on my right. It wasn't well executed technique. I cut in too early then came back to the road. I finally came down just S of #5 and read the stony ground. I crossed the road and cut left where the running was best, eventually getting to a small unmapped creek or deer trail. I hesitated at a reentrant before the stream. | |||||
| 4. | Almost straight to it. Crossing the road I saw Michael Warlters headed to #3 and was surprised that I had passed him. I paused two contours up because I couldn't see it ahead--it was behind a tree on my line of sight. | ||||||
| 5. | I went straight, being careful to reading the stony ground crossing and spurs. At one point, nearing the control I saw Heidi Onkst probably headed to #3 and had to tell myself not to be distracted by her red O-top which looked like a control from a distance. I did see the control itself finally from far off. It's possible that I combined this split with #4. | ||||||
| 6. |
No attack point Bad route choice Did not like map Bad map reading +02:00 | My initial plan was to blast down to the road which I knew to be fast. With a second glance I worried that I'd have to climb too much at the end. After climbing to the trail and going a way I was regretting the choice. The trail was stoney enough that I had to watch where I stepped a lot. The pace picked-up along the wall. I should have attacked from #13 but left the trail west of it at a vague bend. I was on the line and didn't pace count--we joked about not doing this on the drive up. Upon seeing a spring-like reentrant, I got confused and thought it must have been the reentrant just east of the control defined by two contours on the map. The reentrant I saw was really west of the control and partially obscured by the rout line drawn on the map. The control was again just out of sight past the reentrant I saw; probably behind a tree in my line of sight again. | |||||
| 7. | Going on bearing first, I realized the trails would funnel me in the right direction so I just tried to keep moving. It was slow on crossing the rocks. At the trail intersection I was expecting just a T. One of the trails forming the triangle was hidden by the leg line. I figured it was just a newer trail. I kept to my bearing past the trails but had trouble while on the run figureing out what was up and down on the map. Soon I recognized the spur. | ||||||
| 8. | I drank then took off. I thought I'd seen a 30 second elapsed time on my watch before leaving but had no evidence of any split for the leg afterward. I went well right of the line, the cut left after the line of trees in the field to go back in the woods to the control. | ||||||
| 9. | +02:00 | I crossed the creek and climbed the spur to a trail and went left. Cutting right at an intersection, I got to the eastern-most field. There I paused for some horses whose riders waved me on. I kept to the trail and reached the western field. Crossing the unmarked fence into the field I ran up just about on the line. After entering the field, and hitting the road I was caught unaware. I should have just crossed it and felt the control was ahead but second guessed myself because I hadn't expected the road crossing. I cut left, and confused the little cut-through trail back to the field as being on my right, not my left. Not seeing an attack point, I cut into the woods anyway on my right. I hit the S shaped trail, realized what had happened and ran back to the control. | |||||
| 10. | +00:30 | I went straight but upon hitting the thicker green, I went around to the left. I cut back too soon then had to go slowly through the green to the ridge. | |||||
| 11. | Up and over; I was a bit to the right. | ||||||
| 12. | +02:00 | I thought to go up to the clearings. I didn't see the trail until afterward. As I left the control, I saw an opening in the green and thought to go straight over the saddle and down the ridge. I didn't execute. I drifted right and hit a trail. I cut right on it and didn't read my compass. I heard and then ended-up a the road near Thompson's Bridge; no closer than when I left the control. It was easy however to run the road S to the control. | |||||
| 13. | I drank and at a gel thinking I had a lot longer to go on the course. Across the bridge, up the trail and on bearing after the field. I kept running for about all of it. | ||||||
| 14. | Straight to the rocks, I walked the steeper part, then ran along the contour to the control. | ||||||
| 15. | +00:45 | Contouring to the trail, I read the map and saw the circle. At the last second w/the control in sight, I looked at the map again and read Go. For whatever reason, I thought there must have been a 15th control and a Go control. My hand drawn map had "15" written near the traffic circle. I didn't punch and cut down the road. Reading along the way I realized the error of my ways and turned back. | |||||
| F. | I felt strong still. It was dissapointing still to make the wierd mistakes that I did today. |
Total Time Lost - 00:07:25