Race Evaluation
WCOC Macedonia Meet: Blue
cmorse
| 1. | +01:40 | cross bridge, fall down... hard... get up run toward clearing, seems to far.. look left - nice marsh.. no marsh on my map... stand there looking stupid.. look well ahead - see flag, run fast... flag on trail - wrong flag - backtrack uphill and find flag. fine way to begin - am I dead last already? | |||||
| 2. | main trail, side trail & straight, phew... | ||||||
| 3. | +00:30 | map green so swing wide on trail then above cliff and in - certainly didn't need to avoid the light green | |||||
| 4. | +00:15 | due w to trail, turn uphill into reentrant. saddle the right between marshes, top of hill catching Henderson, hesitate momentarily before realizing I need to be on W side of ridge | |||||
| 5. | +00:15 | cross reentrant to catch view of pond, then toward large boulder and up trying to stay L of reentrant - quite green - come out of green near top of hill - nice & safe - look downhill & see Charlie punching | |||||
| 6. | +00:25 | stop to tie shoes, otherwise clean | |||||
| 7. | +07:30 | considered going due S on bearing, but instead went to trail, then cut in to contour W side of hill, was lower than I realized and wandered into mountain laurel hell NW of flag - finally came out in flat area by marshes and figured it out, headed back toward top of hill but slow and double checking features before descending - reentrant not at all green... damn... | |||||
| 8. | +01:00 | straight, catch up to Charlie again before heading into green - charlie going right - come out on top, never saw a trail. Looking for a reentrant on W side of hill, when charlie comes around and convinces me to head farther S - seems too far but sure enough, reentrant & platform show up though reentrant doesn't look as I pictured. | |||||
| 9. | +00:15 | charlie headed low, i contour above reentrant and right over, but hesitate a few contours down before climbing | |||||
| 10. | +02:00 | like the look of white gap E of pond - downhill fine but east side of pond total garbage - finally bail uphill to white halfway around pond - nice clear corridor to flag from there | |||||
| 11. | left around green then straight at hill - see Rich & Jim in reentrant | ||||||
| 12. | +01:05 | stop to tie both shoes again. straight over top then slow bearing looking for flag or adjacent laurel patch below - see it easily but steepness of hill slows progress | |||||
| 13. | +00:10 | drop down to trail, look down cliffs and decide straight route too treacherous - head down trail until things look better, looking for platform on east side of reentrant & see nothing, then realize I'm standing next to it | |||||
| 14. | +00:20 | planned to parallel stream but halfway down mistook reentrant for stream and got left, corrected near end | |||||
| 15. | sprinting time - banged the remaining controls as fast as I could without falling down (once) or mowing down yellow course runners (none - barely)... | ||||||
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| F. | +01:15 | lost time for 3 other shoe reties that I couldn't recall location - need to learn JJ's O-Knot... |
Total Time Lost - 00:16:40