Tundra/Desert's comments - by leg
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Hesitated Time Lost: 00:20 | The route is here. I got to the event site late, Allison drove from Redding in the morning. When I got to the finish, just about everyone was done but the controls were still out. Elis walked me to the start and handed me the map, and Jerry the O-Boy went out to take pictures. I took a long look at the map at the start, not having the benefit of knowing where the peoplel before me went. Then, I stayed on the parking lot too long, and got down from it too far W. Took a few steps into the woods, slowed down and looked left. Saw the bag. This leg ended up fairly slow and not straight at all. |
| 2. |
Did not check features en route Confused parallel features Time Lost: 01:15 | Did not check the power line for poles! and once I hit a trail, misinterpreted it. This was because I could see the houses and cars beyond the map but made a 90o error in interpreting the map boundary... once I found the rootstockno bagfigured it out, turned around and this time nailed it. |
| 3. | Nailed it... surprised to see someone still on the course. | |
| 4. | Couldn't recreate this leg well even right after the race. I know I hit the trail at some point, and left it as it turned to the left, towards the parking lot. | |
| 5. | Went around the hill on the right... the bag was more to the N end of the cliff, so covered a few extra meters. | |
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| 9. |
Bad map reading Did not read control description Disturbed by others Time Lost: 00:15 | As I got there, saw Jerry with camera in some rocks... but no bag... still, raced towards him without reading the map or the description... a mistake. |
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| 11. | Nailed this one, reading everything, even the frisbee golf feature on the ground. | |
| 12. | Went towards it, then got distracted by the White/Yellow control on the trail junction just short of it. | |
| 13. | Raced to the boulders... wrong boulder, had to read the description. | |
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Total Time Lost - 00:01:50
| Suggested Exercises | |
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| map reading | |
| compass work | |
| distance estimation | |
| map memory | |
| map contact | |
| control flow | |
| concentration | |
